18th Century Books


Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution Best Price: $28.95 The late Professor Winks and Professor Kaiser have produced a gem of a book for the student...	Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President Best Price: $28.54 Given the complexity of both the man and the times he lived in I would have thought that a one...	Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources Best Price: $43.00 This open university reader is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from...	What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem Best Price: $79.76 Turner has searched out the documentary evidence of the life of servants in Britain. His book...	Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacific Best Price: $70.01 The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific in...



JAMES FALKNER'S GUIDE TO MARLBOROUGH'S BATTLEFIELDS (Battlefield Guide) Best Price: $18.99 This battlefield guide is essential reading for anyone who is keen to understand the military...	A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe (Blackwell Companions to European History) Best Price: $82.99 This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of...	MARSHALL NEY: The Bravest of the Brave Best Price: $18.91 Just curious for those who have read this book...Does it go into the possibility that his...	War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 (War and European Society Series) Best Price: $16.98 Beginning with the armies, navies and internal security forces of Europe on the eve of the...	Patriots & Liberators Unless you're an academic and the Napoleonic Wars are one of your subjects, the Netherlands is...



The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France Best Price: $1.50 I would rank this among the best of the latest titles on the French Revolution. Andress covers...	The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 Best Price: $24.97 The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive...	The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $48.34 From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference...	Marlborough Goes to War: Eyewitness Accounts 1702 - 1713 Best Price: $26.12 Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of...	The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy Best Price: $47.00 I got this book to learn a little about a topic I didn't know that much about. That I came away...

Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains Best Price: $45.00 The human sciences--including psychology, anthropology, and social theory--are widely held to...	Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt Best Price: $10.17 Ms. Burleigh's Mirage is an excellent account of the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon's army, and...	The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources (Blackwell Essential Readings in History) Best Price: $37.63 These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought...	Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania Best Price: $58.00	On the Missionary Trail: A Journey Through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa with the London Missionary Society Best Price: $1.52 This is the story of one of the most remarkable journeys ever undertaken. In 1821, two pious...

'45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising Best Price: $41.04 Overall, I found Christopher Duffy's book on the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to be an excellent...	Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 Best Price: $34.74 I have been reading this book for school. This book might be for you if: you are very...	The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment Best Price: $3.92 This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians,...	The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions: An Anthology of Sources Best Price: $13.38 Through a wide variety of primary sources -- including letters, eyewitness accounts, and...	Hanoverian London (Sutton History Classics) Best Price: $5.91 In this survey of the life of London through the eighteenth century, the author outlines the...

Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 (Blackwell History of Russia) Best Price: $34.72 Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from...	The European Mind, 1680-1715: The Critical Years	The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland: 1638-1651 Best Price: $10.13 This book provides a fresh perspective on one of the most complex and turbulent periods in the...	The Thieves' Opera Best Price: $5.00 I bought this book because I have a weakness for accounts of historical crimes. Luckily I also...	Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution Best Price: $18.13 A well written book about 7 historical figures who die during the French revolution. It...

Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $23.00 Countless human beings have sought a path to "enlightenment." While history records a...	The Eagle's Last Triumph: Napoleon's Victory at Ligny, June 1815 Best Price: $71.92 This short, concise, and insightful book is not a tactical study of the battle, but rather an...	A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The Ijaz-I Arsalani (Persian Letters, 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (Oxford India Paperbacks) Best Price: $19.62 This book offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European...	Down and Out in Eighteenth-century London Best Price: $23.10 London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew...	Requiem for Modern Politics : The Tragedy of the Enlightenment and the Challenge of the New Millennium Best Price: $22.88 It is all too symptomatic of the present state of intellectual discussion (and publishing) that...

The Enlightenment Cyborg: A History of Communications and Control in the Human Machine, 1660-1830 Best Price: $45.95 For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic...	Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment Best Price: $10.76 "Gnawing at the heart of the age of Enlightenment was the self-contradicting,...	Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard (NG Adventure Classics) Best Price: $2.94 Although I agree with the criticisms of the other two reviewers, I found Ledyard's journal on...	SWORDS FOR HIRE: The Scottish Mercenary Best Price: $25.00 In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national...	History of the Balkans, Vol. 1: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (The Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Publication Series, No. 12) Best Price: $5.00 Jelavich clearly knows her stuff, and this (and its successor volume) serve as an excellent...

Casanova Best Price: $5.95 A sympathetic biography of a highly complex and intelligent man, who was arguably the most...	Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory (Campaign) Best Price: $37.21 This book was an outstanding opportunity to bring the scholarship on the Battle of Guilford...	Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-Century Eastern Massachusetts Best Price: $11.00 Behind the Frontier tells the story of the Indians in Massachusetts as English settlements...	WATERLOO 1815: Wavre, Plancenoit and the Race to Paris (Pen & Sword Military) Best Price: $16.06 Histories of the Waterloo campaign and tours of the battlefield generally concentrate on the...	Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton Best Price: $140.00 This illustrated collection of specially-commissioned essays by a team of leading scholars...

Irish Literature: The Nineteenth Century Best Price: $39.27 The second of the three volumes, roughly spans the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a...	The Anglo-Saxon Shield For the Anglo-Saxons the shield, more than any other piece of armour or weaponry, epitomised the...	BLENHEIM 1704: Marlborough's Greatest Victory (Battleground Marlbourugh) Best Price: $13.01 A detailed and easily followed guidebook that tells the story of the Duke of Marlborough's...	Supreme Courage: Heroic Stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross Best Price: $13.99 Reads well, Good collection of Stories of VC winners, Including Guy Gibson, David Wanklyn,...	The Eagle's Last Triumph: Napoleon's Victory at Ligny, June 1815 Best Price: $71.49 This short, concise, and insightful book is not a tactical study of the battle, but rather an...

The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People 1750-1880 Best Price: $22.50 This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center...	Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals Best Price: $23.11 1916. From a historical standpoint, the Shaker Village at Harvard, Massachusetts, holds a unique...	MARSHALL NEY: The Bravest of the Brave Best Price: $19.28 Just curious for those who have read this book...Does it go into the possibility that his...	Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $24.89 Coastal Encounters opens a window onto the fascinating world of the eighteenth-century Gulf...	Thomas Barclay (1728-1793): Consul in France, Diplomat in Barbary Best Price: $62.50 Long overdue, this is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay (1728-93), the first American...

1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age Best Price: $17.82 The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented...

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