18th Century Books


The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History) Best Price: $36.49 If you have read on the Reformation or are interested in Western Civilization, to know it or to...	The Founders' Almanac Best Price: $33.92 I added this fine work to my library about 4 months ago and already the pages are showing signs...	The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 Best Price: $40.85 For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic...	Revolutionary Soldier: 1775-1783 (Illustrated Living History Series) Best Price: $8.92 I purchased this book a long time ago when I went intellectually wandering through the American...	Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France Best Price: $20.99 Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political...



George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $3.48 The unconventional in the subtitle "An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century"...	Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra (S U N Y Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) Best Price: $13.16 The rise and decline of Ottoman Basra, an eighteenth century trade center.	Reformation Europe: 1517-1559 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Best Price: $28.85 This is G.R. Elton's classic account of the Reformation, revealing the issues and preoccupations...	Horse Guards: Illustrated History of the Household Cavalry Best Price: $45.63 Words fail me about this book. In that it is one of the best books about the Cavalry Regiments...	1805: Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition Best Price: $3.95 This is a very thorough and detailed account of perhaps Napoleon's greatest victory (and...



Trafalgar: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History (Phoenix Press) Best Price: $8.96 Beginning with a vivid recreation of Napoleon's army assembling at Boulogne for the invasion of...	Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Best Price: $20.00 The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of...	Reaction and Revolution: Russia 1894-1924 (Access to History) Best Price: $16.01 The third edition of this best-selling title provides both a narrative and analysis of the...	The Fatal Shore Best Price: $5.00 "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes is the one book which is always mentioned when it...	Iowa Class Battleships: Their Design, Weapons and Equipment I found this book an excellent resource for info on the Iowa class of battleships. I was a...

Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Best Price: $64.00 Special features *Surveys of Britain, with substantial coverage of Wales, Scotland, and...	Nelson the Admiral Best Price: $19.95 This is a wonderful book. Colin White has taken all the new research that has emerged over the...	Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Goethe, the Poet of the Age) Best Price: $31.00 I'm not a student or a scholar, I'm just a huge fan of Goethe, and he's not very prominent in...	The Johnson County War Best Price: $18.91 THIS BOOK IS AN EXCELLENT ACCOUNTING OF THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT REALLY MAKE THE JOHNSON...	The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, And It-narratives in Eighteenth-Century England (Buchnell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Best Price: $62.50 This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and...

Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment Best Price: $19.77 William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which...	Women, Gender and Enlightenment Best Price: $34.11 Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment...	Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution Best Price: $7.23 From the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming...	A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History (Blackwell History Dictionaries) Best Price: $75.00 This dictionary - ranging from the wars of the 1690s to the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 -...	SEDAN 1870: The Eclipse of France Best Price: $21.77 The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the...

Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Goethe (Oxford University Press)) Best Price: $4.75 When Volume I of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe appeared, it received an avalanche of...	Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us About the European and American Past Best Price: $50.56 Furnishing the 18th Century is a collection of original essays that delves into the history of...	Europe Unfolding: 1648-1688 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Best Price: $34.95 The new edition of this classic history provides readers with an introduction to a period...	The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, Volume 1: The English Phallus Best Price: $18.96 King historicizes male sexuality in the Gendering of Men and in so doing challenges those...	Sold as a Slave (Penguin Great Journeys) Best Price: $3.00 Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the...

The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church: Moderatism, Pietism, and Awakening Best Price: $25.00	The Anza Trail and the Settling of California Best Price: $1.63 Dear Editors, I have just finished reading Vladimir Guerrero's book, The Anza Trail and the...	FALL OF NEW FRANCE: How the French Lost a North American Empire Best Price: $14.83 A delightful little book that gives the reader a basic understanding of the conflict. Nicely...	Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Best Price: $26.25 This is an excellent survey of the crucial events in European history during the second half of...	Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer Best Price: $14.74 This is by far one of the best books about the infamous mutiny on the Bounty. Glynn Christian...

Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe (European History in Perspective) Best Price: $29.61 Alexander Grab explores the impact of Napoleon's domination throughout his empire and the...	The European Renaissance: Centers and Peripheries (Making of Europe) Best Price: $26.72 This excellent piece of historical research and narrative, exposes a considerable level of...	The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830 Best Price: $19.47 The French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about...	The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $14.02 Peter Linebaugh was a student and colleague of E.P. Thompson whose work on 18th century and...	Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World Best Price: $38.39 Johann Reinhold Forster's Observations Made During A Voyage Round The World, first published in...

The Road to St Helena: Napoleon After Waterloo Best Price: $22.49 David Markham once again delivers outstanding scholarship in this work on the end of Napoleon's...	Henry VIII (Routledge Historical Biographies) Best Price: $18.98 'The author does a wonderful job of telling a gripping story that also gives a sense of the...	History's Memory: Writing Americas Past, 1880-1980 Best Price: $20.34 " Enthusiasts and critics both have looked to the political upheavals of the 1960s to...	Julius II: The Warrior Pope Best Price: $50.95 I would just like to say on behalf of this book that Christine Shaw did a wonderful job in...	The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution Best Price: $18.45

Marlborough as Military Commander (Spellmount Classics) Best Price: $21.04 The detailed analysis of the Duke of Marlborough as a commander; informed, dispassionate, and...	Culloden: 1746 Best Price: $13.00 This is the best single volume account of the battle of Culloden and far superior to John...	Decisive Battles of the American Revolution Best Price: $14.94 In Decisive Battles of the American Revolution, Col. Joseph B. Mitchell, author of a half dozen...	Luxury in the Eighteenth-Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods Best Price: $26.44 Luxury was the keyword of the eighteenth century, and the history of luxury links diverse topics...	Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 (Blackwell History of Russia) Best Price: $33.05 Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire...

The Victorian House Explained (England's Living History) Best Price: $11.66 An illustrated guide to dating your house, recognising styles and selecting the right fittings...	A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown Best Price: $33.18 This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the...	The Mammoth Book of Explorers (Mammoth Books) Best Price: $1.06 During the golden age of exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the...	The Loss of the Wager: The Narratives of John Bulkeley and the Hon. John Byron (First Person Singular) Best Price: $22.98 The Loss of the Wager is an eighteenth century melodrama set in a ferociously inhospitable...	Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophisians Best Price: $61.75 During Napoleon's rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took...

Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century Best Price: $77.20 This original volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the...	Henry VIII and the English Nobility Best Price: $24.95 While I did not love this book, it is well-researched and makes a solid contribution to a...

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