18th Century Books


Aristocrats : the illustrated companion to the television series Best Price: $35.95 This is a wonderful book! I bought the video from Borders, (39.99) and I LOVED it! Of course, to...	The European Mind, 1680-1715: The Critical Years	The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect Best Price: $16.29 Who were the Victorians? Were they self-confident imperialists secure in the virtues of the...	Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776 Best Price: $165.00 Carl Peter Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favorite student of...	A Poisoned Chalice Best Price: $14.50 The microhistory, A Poisoned Chalice by Jeffrey Freedman traces the evolution of a crime in...



Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France Best Price: $4.10	Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $31.61 Kathleen Wilson is undoubtedly the most exciting British historian writing today and I believe...	Best of Enemies: Britain and Germany: 100 Years of Truth and Lies Best Price: $16.37 In August 1914 Britain's first act of war was not to mobilize its army or the Grand Fleet. It...	Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850 (Longman History of Modern Europe) Best Price: $37.53 Cover the major political events of this turbulent period and examines the lives or ordinary...	London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England Best Price: $18.03



A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $43.53 Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from...	Laurence Sterne: A Life Best Price: $30.60 _Laurence Sterne: A Life_ (Oxford University Press), by Ian Campbell Ross, is a dandy new...	Frederick the Great's Army (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $49.55 This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the men who served in...	The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 18th Century Best Price: $24.95 Traditionally, the Eastern Cape frontier of South Africa has been regarded as the preeminent...	From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe Best Price: $14.83 Time and again, when studying the history of scientific and philosophical thought in the...

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Best Price: $13.88 This book has a lot of interesting information but its written in such a dry manner that it will...	A Voyage Round the World Best Price: $77.36 George Forster's A Voyage round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and...	Religious & Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe 5 volume set (Works of Daniel Defoe the Pickering Masters) Best Price: $746.00 Bringing together an impressive collection of his most important and influential instructional...	The Road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the Fall of the French Monarchy Best Price: $29.95 I got this book to learn a little about a topic I didn't know that much about. That I came away...	An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (The Medieval and Early Modern World) Best Price: $3.98 An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800, tells the colorful story of a pivotal period in...

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China Best Price: $10.40 Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity--such as hagiographies of...	Europe 1870-1991 (Flagship History) Best Price: $27.21 A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth...	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...	Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir Best Price: $23.95 "Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects" covers the macro historical, social, religious, and...	Winds of Revolution: Time Frame AD 1700-1800 (Time Frame) Best Price: $5.00

The Whig World, 1760-1837 Best Price: $17.62 The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700,...	Doctors, Folk Medicine And The Inquisition: The Repression Of Magical Healing In Portugal During The Enlightenment (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World) Best Price: $188.52 Inquisition trials for sorcery and witchcraft in Portugal reached a late crescindo (1715 to...	Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $12.89 This is an anthology composed of 77 excerpts from travel writings by English authors in the 18th...	The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $35.66 In the late 1770s, as a wave of revolution and republican unrest swept across Europe, scholars...	A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution Best Price: $13.32 In 1710, an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by...

Social justice through the eyes of Wesley: John Wesley's theological challenge to slavery Best Price: $19.28 European enslavement of Africans and the development of the slave trade began in the sixteenth...	Hanoverian London (Sutton History Classics) Best Price: $5.90 In this survey of the life of London through the eighteenth century, the author outlines the...	Festivals and the French Revolution Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty,...	French Finances 1770-1795: From Business to Bureaucracy (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) Best Price: $41.85 The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its...	The San Saba Mission: Spanish Pivot in Texas Best Price: $16.89 The San Saba Mission by Robert S. Weddle is a comprehensive outlook on the Spanish attempt to...

Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (European Culture and Society) Best Price: $26.02 The goal of this book is an ambitious one. Gary Waite seeks to explain the connections between...	Down and Out in Eighteenth-century London Best Price: $20.98 London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world, and a magnet that drew men...	Black Barty: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean Best Price: $2.00 Bartholomew Roberts, also known as Black Bart, was easily one of the most successful and deadly...	Louisbourg: Un guide en couleurs d'histoire vivante (Illustrated Site Guide Series) (French Edition) ? la forteresse de Louisbourg, sur l'?le du Cap-Breton, le 18e si?cle renait! Vous y trouverez...	The Formative Influences, Theories, and Campaigns of the Archduke Carl of Austria: (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $84.00 It is perhaps rather unusual for only the second work in English about a major Continental...

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister Best Price: $27.92 The author's style is so casual and "chatty" that the overall work lacks a feeling of...	Knock: The Virgins Apparition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Best Price: $49.14 In 1879 local people reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary and other supernatural personages...	'45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising Best Price: $112.93 Overall, I found Christopher Duffy's book on the Jacobite Rising of 1745 to be an excellent...	Marines to 95th (Rifles) - The military experiences of Robert Fernyhough during the Napoleonic Wars. Best Price: $13.22 Marines to 95th (Rifles) - A military family at war with Napoleon This is the story of a Royal...	The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914 Best Price: $24.98 The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive...

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African Best Price: $19.95 To Mr. M-. February 8, 1777. Zounds! if alive-what ails you? if dead-why did you not fend me...	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates Best Price: $24.99 A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates is a great book...	The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975 Best Price: $28.65 The Long sexual revolution is one of the best studies of Victorian and early twentieth century...	Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6 Best Price: $19.09 Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War....	Nelson's Trafalgar Captains and Their Battles. Best Price: $24.63 This is a fine collection of biographies of the captains who served under Nelson in the...

East End 1888 Best Price: $19.64 East End 1888 is essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of...	What's Wrong with Children's Rights Best Price: $13.51 "Americans have become convinced (wrongly) by the media that child abuse is a prevalent...	The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire) Best Price: $32.03 The work of leading scholar Terry Castle features essays on phantasmagoria in 18th-century...	Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British Army, and the British People c.1870-2000 Best Price: $33.37 The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This...	Maya Revolt and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (Latin American Realities) Best Price: $36.95 Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolution provide insight into the nature of the Maya in...

Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries I'd classify this as a lovely coffee-table book, it has many luxurious detailed close-up...	Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire Best Price: $27.65 When taking my college class (Rise and fall of the British Empire), it did not talk enough about...	The Harlot's Handbook: Harris's List Best Price: $3.92 Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the 18th century with more than...

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