18th Century Books


Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920 [Two Volumes] Best Price: $225.00 Although the temptation is to focus on technological changes and their application to industry,...	The Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London Best Price: $129.34	ROYAL NAVY VERSUS THE SLAVE TRADERS: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898 Best Price: $25.94 In 1807 Britain abolished the Slave Trade and in 1808 the Royal Navy formed it's African...	Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century, 1688-1820 (Routledge Companions to History) Best Price: $31.61 Enormously rich and wide-ranging, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century ...	The Governing of Britain, 1688-1848: The Executive, Parliament and the People Best Price: $23.22 A political survey of the long eighteenth century, putting forward an argument for cohesion and...



The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) Best Price: $43.94 Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic...	A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) Best Price: $24.94 Reevaluates the foundation myths of two rival factions in Egypt during the Ottoman era.	Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in Nineteenth-century England Best Price: $70.00	This Teaching I Present (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, No. 41) Best Price: $20.18 Fraktur, that exquisite script formed with ornate letters and highly decorated borders, was...	The Agony of Asar: A Thesis on Slavery by the Former Slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747 Best Price: $33.62 Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein was an African who was taken as a slave from his native Africa...



How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World En 1770 Guillaume Thomas Fran?ois Raynal publica an?nimamente su Histoire philosophique et...	The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (European Culture and Society) Best Price: $22.05 Jerzy Lukowski shows the pressures and tensions, both from below and from governments, which...	Church and People: England 1450-1660 (Blackwell Classic Histories of England) Best Price: $35.15 Claire Cross is obviously an intelligent woman. She uses words and phrases appropriate to the...	A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794 Best Price: $14.26 Captain Samuel Gamble recorded in his ship?s log a record of a nearly failed slaving venture...	Guilford Courthouse 1781: Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory (Campaign) Best Price: $16.54 This book was an outstanding opportunity to bring the scholarship on the Battle of Guilford...

The Fall of Toulon: The Last Opportunity to Defeat the French Revolution (Cassell Military Paperbacks) Best Price: $6.00 Bernard Ireland's popular and accessible account of the fall of Toulon brings to life a savage...	Renaissance Europe 1480 - 1520 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Best Price: $33.54 The new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and...	Irish Literature: The Nineteenth Century Best Price: $33.75	Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain Best Price: $24.89 Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to...	Emma Hamilton (Life & Times) Best Price: $5.12 Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) epitomized the classic tale of an eighteenth century woman's rise from...

The Anglo-Saxon Shield Best Price: $47.77	Nelson's Trafalgar Captains and Their Battles. Best Price: $39.94 This is a fine collection of biographies of the captains who served under Nelson in the...	Dutch Culture in a European Perspective 2: 1800: Blueprints for a National Community Best Price: $159.92 Focusing on the years surrounding 1800, Blueprints for a National Community describes the...	The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Best Price: $37.41 Norbert Elias gives us with this fantastic piece of work the BEST interpretation on the question...	Walpole in Power Best Price: $21.05 Robert Walpole was Britain's first Prime Minister and one of the great political figures of the...

From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts) Best Price: $312.71 From Hogarth to Rowlandson shows how medicine and medical practitioners were portrayed by some...	The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty (International Library of War Studies) Best Price: $81.98 In this book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of...	Enlightenment And Emancipation (Buchnell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Best Price: $51.50	Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth- Century Europe (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $105.00 Intellectual historians generally view the Enlightenment as a pacifist or anti-war movement....	The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy Best Price: $28.61 I sometimes get a bit nervous when I buy a book written, supposedly, for the general public by...

The Age of Conversation Best Price: $1.28 Thoroughly enjoyed this hundred year plus survey of women who influenced French culture and the...	Women With Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction Best Price: $11.00 Mary is a diligent scholar and a great story teller. Women With Wings is a very enjoyable read....	Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815 [Two Volumes] Best Price: $168.88 By giving rise to new ideologies that in time transformed the political structure of much of the...	Medicine-by-Post: The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Cons Letters and Literature (Clio Medica 79) (Clio Medica: the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine) Best Price: $62.40 'Medicine-by-Post' is an interdisciplinary study that will engage readers both in the history of...	O Gluckliche, Reiche, Einzige Tage: Fanny Und Wilhelm Hensels Italienische Reise. Mit Dem Faksimile Der Bildseiten Aus Dem Reise-album 1839-1840 Best Price: $98.40

The Chelsea Gardener: Philip Miller, 1691-1771 Best Price: $40.30 This biography of the great 18th-century gardener, who numbered Sir Hans Sloane and Carl...	Frederick the Great's Army (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $57.76 This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the men who served in...	The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War: The Untold Story Best Price: $25.00 This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private...	AUSTERLITZ: Napoleon and The Eagles of Europe Best Price: $26.30 Castle's Austerlitz is a short, well written primer on the 1805 campaign apparently (they share...	The American Revolution: The Global Struggle for National Independence Best Price: $10.88 Overall, this is a good book by a superb author, however, it has its flaws in its ommissions. ...

NAPOLEON'S POLISH GAMBLE: Eylau and Friedland 1807 (Campaign Chronicles S.) Best Price: $22.06 Like the previous reviwer, I must start by stating that this book is a horrible disappointment...	Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Families, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 (Pitt Latin American Series) The first work in English to discuss the social and political history of lawyers in a Latin...	The Atlantic Slave Trade: Eighteenth Century (The Atlantic Slave Trade) Best Price: $224.99	The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in an Eighteenth-Century City Best Price: $38.74 By 1700, London was the largest city in the world with over 500,000 inhabitants. Weakly policed,...	Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World Best Price: $45.00

George III: An Essay in Monarchy Best Price: $110.00 This book is a political study of the reign of George III which draws upon unpublished sources...	Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750-1832 Best Price: $14.97 Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy,...	The Enlightenment World (Routledge Worlds) Best Price: $254.99 The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the...	The Renaissance and the Celtic Countries (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) Best Price: $30.13 This revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. ...	Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Best Price: $168.27 The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) "to create anew the Polish...

A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers, and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century (Pasold Studies in Textile History) Best Price: $143.67 During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was...	Limeys: The Conquest of Scurvy Best Price: $7.89 Given the current obsession with food quality and nutrition, this timely book addresses the...	Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo Best Price: $10.12 Well, this is a waste. The author fails the reader in every possible way: Poorly researched,...	Diamonds Are Forgiving Best Price: $14.94 An excellent introduction to Brazilian's republican first years,a period not very well known...	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.

Maritime History: The Eighteenth Century and the Classic Age of Sail (Open Forum) Best Price: $29.50 This is designed as an introductory text for undergraduate courses in maritime history and the...

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