18th Century Books


The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War Best Price: $7.31 Originally, Fred Anderson wrote Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of the Empire...	A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 (New Oxford History of England) Best Price: $30.92 All too many surveys of history start with soaring language that stresses how the period being...	Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind Best Price: $7.36 I enjoyed this dip into a pocket of history that I knew only by allusion from other works. ...	Benedict Arnold's Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War Best Price: $16.75 I purchased this book with a "Ho hum, another book purporting to offer something new on the...	A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire Best Price: $22.62 At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and...



The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment Best Price: $11.31 The late historian Roy Porter has provided an invaluable addition to studies in the history of...	Eighteenth Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (Norton History of Modern Europe) Best Price: $18.74	The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (New Approaches to European History) Best Price: $5.00 James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of "the public" in...	FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND Best Price: $34.65 From Eylau to Friedland is a wonderful book for those interested either in these rather obscure...	Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $5.64 The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly...



Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.74 well, i finally got around to reading thomas paine's "rights of man". his sentences,...	A Brief History of the Age of Steam: From the First Engine to the Boats and Railways Best Price: $5.71 In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by...	Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors Best Price: $5.96 The second in a series of true-life shipwreck stories I have read (see Brian Hicks' Ghost Ship:...	Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 Best Price: $15.90 There are possibly more books on the shelves of bookshops (certainly in England) about Nelson...	Reflections on the Revolution in France: A Critical Edition Best Price: $26.92 This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. In...

The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey Best Price: $14.00 In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave...	The Enlightenment (New Approaches to European History) Best Price: $14.95 Books in this series are supposed to be written as introductions to important topics in European...	Sources and Debates in English History: 1485-1714 Best Price: $37.96 Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: A Narrative History , this...	Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution Best Price: $18.91 Total enjoyable reading. Even history buffs will find many unknown facts revealed in this book.	ALBUERA 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War Best Price: $25.28 While not large in comparison to many battles of the Napoleonic Wars, the battle of Albuera was...

Panorama of the Enlightenment (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum) Best Price: $11.99 This book is another of Thames & Hudson's high-quality "coffee-table" type of...	THE ELEMENTARY COMMON SENSE OF THOMAS PAINE: An Interactive Adaptation for All Ages Best Price: $11.86 Reviewed by Ben Weldon (age 11) for Reader Views (10/08) "The Elementary Common Sense of...	Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection Best Price: $12.13 The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave...	Europe in the Sixteenth Century (Blackwell History of Europe) Best Price: $5.00 Assuming no prior knowledge of the period, this engaging narrative history introduces readers to...	The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture Best Price: $22.94 An eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the Enlightenment-the importance of which has...

Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of the French at Blenheim Best Price: $7.78 The value of Spencer's Battle for Europe is in making the personality of Marlborough and the...	Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins Best Price: $39.95 I have just read the 7th volume of the amazing Story of Civilization, and continue to be...	Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati Best Price: $13.57 Presenting an advanced and authoritative?perspective, this definitive study chronicles?the rise...	Tales from the Hanging Court Best Price: $38.59 Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a...	The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Best Price: $26.04 Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide...

Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789 (Story of Civilization, 10) Best Price: $29.88 ...continues the excellence of the series. Originally intended as the final book of the series,...	SINS OF THE FATHERS: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1441-1807 Best Price: $4.31 Based on journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen, and slaves, themselves, this is...	German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate 1648-1871 Best Price: $29.95 "German Home Towns certainly illuminates habits of life in the seventeenth, eighteenth and...	The Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents (Pages from History) Best Price: $29.92 I am eager to assign this as required reading in my world history courses at the university...	REDCOATS AND REBELS Best Price: $22.00 Military libraries strong in early American military history will love this survey, based on a...

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation Best Price: $14.21 Alexander Broadie is Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University- a chair once...	Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.30 While the rest of eighteenth century Europe was embroiled in revolution and unrest, Britain...	Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason Best Price: $20.08 A serious dissertation on early gin history in England and its social and economic impact on...	The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1890-1980 In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how...	The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire Best Price: $20.64 This book ranks amongst the very best military history I have ever read. It incorporates a...

Toulon 1793: Napoleon's first great victory (Campaign) Best Price: $1.95 this is the first complete account of the taking and subsequent siege of toulon that i have...	Barbarism and Religion: Volume 4: Barbarians, Savages and Empires (v. 4) Best Price: $28.99 This fourth volume in John Pocock's great sequence on Barbarism and Religion focuses on the idea...	Eighteenth-Century Europe (Palgrave History of Europe) Best Price: $38.89 A new edition of this highly successful and influential work includes two entirely new chapters...	Napoleonic Artillery Best Price: $33.79 I was greatly anticipating this book, and sadly was greatly disappointed upon receiving it. I've...	The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader Best Price: $33.29 While I might quibble a bit with the chronological boundaries set by the editors of this text,...

Feeding Nelson's Navy: The True Story of Food at Sea in the Georgian Era Best Price: $12.49 Author Janet Macdonald writes an informative and in depth book about feeding English sailors in...	Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Best Price: $3.89 This is a very engaging history about the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. As...	British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates Best Price: $66.46 The new Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited...	Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution Best Price: $14.98 Neither concise nor comprehensive nor difinitive Unfortunately, this book is not a history of...	Beethoven's Hair : An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved Best Price: $2.90 The premise of"Beethoven's Hair"is that in 1827,a day or two after the death of the...

The Anthropology of the Enlightenment Best Price: $23.92 The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural...	The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources (Blackwell Essential Readings in History) Best Price: $33.33 These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought...	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 Best Price: $36.47 From Front Jacket: "In this wide-ranging sequel to 'The Problem of Slavery in Western...	The Civil War in Missouri, Day by Day, 1861 to 1865 Best Price: $21.51 I'm a huge fan of Missouri history and Civil War history and love this book. I haven't...	The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $12.94 I absolutely adore this book! It is so thorough and will give you the most generic yet...

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