18th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683073376Author Matthew EverhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

Yn oes Fictoria, ystyriwyd menywod yn anaddas ac anabl ar gyfer pob arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus a deallusol. Ond llwyddodd Cranogwen, sef Sarah Jane Rees (1839-1916) o Langrannog, i ennill parch ac enwogrwydd fel bardd, darlithydd, golygydd, pregethwraig,...

The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume...

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and...

Recreate the action and drama of 17th Century warfare on your tabletop with The Pikeman's Lament. Start by creating your Officer - is he a natural leader raised from the ranks, the youngest son of a noble family, or an old veteran who has seen too many...

From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means, decided he could never marry a woman with brains, spirit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628170Author Andrew BamfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512882Author Boris MegorskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908590602Author Ruth LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336448Author Rene ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord...

Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604594645Author Gustave LebonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's...

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856219Author David JacquesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014182Author Glynn ChristianFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000520Author E. P. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848.This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution', when modern attitudes to political and...

Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and...

The army of Frederick the Great of Prussia is generally known as an efficient fighting machine based on brutal and strict drill procedures that led to broken but fearless soldiers as well as glorious battle victories. In analysing the mentalities of the...

A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its nascent Empire. SHORTLISTED for the EHS Book Prize 2020 ...

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070432Author Alistair NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten...

Peter Linebaugh's groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.Rather it evidently served...

This fourth edition of Sir John Hale's classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale's...

Shoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the early Americans who wore them.Honorable Mention of the Historic New England Book Prize by Historic New EnglandIn Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the...

Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515693Author Jonathan D OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea...

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. The chapters traverse a broad spectrum both chronologically and thematically; yet...

Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them. In this engaging book, Matthew Johnson looks at the traditional houses that still...