18th Century Books


The Victorian Policeman (Shire Library) Best Price: $10.00 As Queen Victoria's reign commenced the old watchman were still patrolling the streets and Bow...	Cromwell and the Interregnum: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History) Best Price: $26.08 This book brings together eight of the most influential recent articles on Oliver Cromwell and...	France in the Enlightenment (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $24.26 A big book, nearly 700 page long but a very detailed picture of the thoughts and life styles of...	Edmund Burke, Volume II: 1784-1797 (v. 2) Best Price: $70.49 This is the second and concluding volume of a biography of Edmund Burke (1730-97), a key figure...	The Speedwell Voyage: A Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the 18th Century Best Price: $3.39 Poolman takes what could have been a fascinating, exciting story and makes it into a dull read. ...



Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime Best Price: $129.41	The Services Of Lieut.-Colonel Francis Downman In France, North America And The West Indies Between The Years 1758 And 1784 Best Price: $13.75 This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest...	Recording And Reordering: Essays on the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Diary And Journal (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Best Price: $47.50 The essays in this collection consider the diaries and journals of the seventeenth and...	The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments And New Approaches Best Price: $68.61 Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What...	Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation In Eighteenth-century France Best Price: $21.95 The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities...



Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries: (Sports and Games Through History) Best Price: $49.25 Many of the sports and games played around the world today have their roots in the 18th and 19th...	Eminent Victorian Women Best Price: $13.57	The Beggar's Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and Their Rituals Best Price: $365.62 I read the original 2001 edition. This is the definite source at least till then about the...	Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) Best Price: $28.47 Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism...	READING LONDON: URBAN SPECULATION AND IMAGINATIVE GOVERNMENT EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE) Best Price: $13.00 While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched...

Renaissance Europe 1480 - 1520 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Best Price: $89.83 The new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and...	Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (Jewish Culture and Contexts) Best Price: $40.00 The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in...	International Politics and Warfare in the Age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great: A Guide to the Historical Literature Best Price: $37.56 The Peace of Westphalia (1648), ending the Thirty Years' War, resulted in the rise of the modern...	JAMES FALKNER'S GUIDE TO MARLBOROUGH'S BATTLEFIELDS (Battlefield Guide) Best Price: $18.08 This battlefield guide is essential reading for anyone who is keen to understand the military...	The Evolution Of The British Welfare State: A History Of Social Policy Since The Industrial Revolution Best Price: $28.00 In the 28 years since the first publication of this book it has become the standard text on the...

An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England Best Price: $6.90 There were parts that seemed a bit suspect as I read, but I didn't realize how inaccurate it was...	The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $295.00 In this unusual approach to cultural history, John Brewer seeks to explain how "practical...	Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France 1620-1800 (Historical Connections) Best Price: $3.94 A thorough comparison of the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how...	The Persian Gulf: The Rise of the Gulf Arabs Best Price: $39.99 The history of the Persian Gulf during the eighteenth century is still little known. This gap is...	Markets, Market Culture and Popular Protest in Eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Best Price: $22.72 This volume is concerned with markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century...

Napoleon: The Immortal Emperor Best Price: $24.99 "Napoleon: The Immortal Emperor" is a sumptuous exploration of the life and legacy of...	Royal Historical Society Transactions: Volume 8, 1998, Sixth Series Best Price: $64.35 The Royal Historical Society Transactions offer readers an annual collection of major articles...	Requiem For Modern Politics: The Tragedy Of The Enlightenment And The Challenge Of The New Millennium Best Price: $39.00 It is all too symptomatic of the present state of intellectual discussion (and publishing) that...	The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560's (History of Early Modern England) Best Price: $19.95 Dr. Norman Jones a leading intellectual in the history of early modern Britain and the author of...	Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources Best Price: $43.20 This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources,...

Mary Tudor: A Life Best Price: $24.63 As the name of my review implies, I thought this book was super awesome. I read Carolly's...	The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the Present Best Price: $13.00 From the Civil Wars to the Second World War, the British army proved to be the most successful...	South Sea Bubble Though written over 40 years ago, Carswell's study of the South Sea Bubble is brilliant. The...	The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 171215 Best Price: $95.95 The survival of Edmund Harrold's diary for the years 1712-1715 is a remarkable piece of luck for...	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: $19.60 This book offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European...

The English Renaissance: Identity and Representationin Elizabethan England Best Price: $50.04 This book reveals the significance of the Calvinist discourse of English Protestantism as a...	The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change: 1598-1700 (A History of Spain) Best Price: $33.00 This book [and " Spain 1516-1598 : From Nation State to World Empire (A History of Spain)...	Spain 1516-1598: From Nation State to World Empire (A History of Spain) Best Price: $42.75 This book (and "The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change, 1598-1700 -A History of...	Thomas White and the Blackloists (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) Best Price: $95.95 This is the first book-length study of the political and theological views of Thomas White...	Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800 Best Price: $11.63 In "Asylum for Mankind" Professor Baseler masterfully weaves together the forces...

"A Few Acres of Snow": The Saga of the French and Indian Wars Best Price: $1.59 I have read many books on the French and Indian war, by far I find that Francis Parkman is the...	Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa (Ohio RIS Africa Series) Best Price: $26.95 Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the...	Oliver Cromwell (Historical Association Studies) Best Price: $29.85 It appears the book was written by a Cromwell apologist, in the worst sense. I'd recommend...	The Notables and the Nation: The Political Schooling of the French, 17871788 (Harvard Historical Studies) Best Price: $43.29 The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between...	Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) Best Price: $24.81 This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich...

Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras) Best Price: $79.80 This dictionary offers a balanced overview and helps readers understand and appreciate the...	Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors 1750-1850 (The History of Retailing and Consumption) (The History of Retailing and Consumption) Best Price: $95.95	Walpole in Power Best Price: $16.58 Robert Walpole was Britain's first Prime Minister and one of the great political figures of the...	The Search for Liberty: From Origins to Independence (History of USA) Best Price: $15.99 This is a history of the region now known as the United States of America, from earliest times...	Great Lives from History: The 18th Century 1701-1800 Best Price: $175.00 Coverage in "Great Lives from History: The 18th Century" is broad in its variety of...

Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes (SUNY Series in Social and Political Thought) Best Price: $20.94 Sees Rousseau as the father if Counter-Enlightenment thought.	The Governing of Britain, 1688-1848: The Executive, Parliament and the People Best Price: $22.80 A political survey of the long eighteenth century, putting forward an argument for cohesion and...	ROYAL NAVY VERSUS THE SLAVE TRADERS: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898 Best Price: $23.53 In 1807 Britain abolished the Slave Trade and in 1808 the Royal Navy formed it's African...	Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons Best Price: $29.11 In her recently published monograph, Lisa Forman Cody explores the intersection of two seemingly...	Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768 (University of Arizona Southwest Center Book) Best Price: $45.00 When missionaries came to colonize California, it was to Baja California "Antigua...

Wellington's Navy: Sea Power and the Peninsular War 1807-1814 Best Price: $28.85 I just finished reading WN and it is quite good, especially having read and reread Hornblower...	Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $19.80 This book is a richly detailed examination of social interaction in the city of Chihuahua, a...	The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China Best Price: $59.97 "The Class of 1761" reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from...	Larrey: Surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard Best Price: $21.98 Robert Richardson's biography on Dominique Jean Larrey, one of the foremost pioneers in combat...	Planting A Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, And Manufacturers In The Southern Interior, 1790-1860 Best Price: $40.41 In Planting a Capitalist South, Tom Downey effectively challenges the idea that commercial and...

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