18th Century

Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant...

The first biography of William Roy, exploring his life, career and legacyAbout the AuthorHumphrey Welfare, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.Book InformationISBN 9781399505789Author Humphrey...

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.The volume focuses on colonialism's...

This volume takes a thematic approach to the history of the eighteenth century in the British Isles, covering such issues as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and change, and social and demographic structure...

The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in...

Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its portrayal of one of the world's great generals as a...

George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a...

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals "By excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and...

En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the...

Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386-1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512318Author Nicholas DorrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059810Author David A. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118914Author David A. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the...

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he...

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of...

This is the story of Queen Caroline's favourite ghostwriter, the infamous Captain Thomas Ashe, who was also an adventurer and sometime blackmailer. His unpublished novel, The Claustral Palace: or Memoirs of The Family, carried out Caroline's threat to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336493Author Ciro PaolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118969Author Peter BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses...

The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628552Author Neil CogswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059773Author Andy CopestakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into...

London's modest eighteenth-century houses-those inhabited by artisans and laborers in the unseen parts of Georgian London-can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from...

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the...

Volume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911113652Author Malcolm SeddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint SpiderwizePublisher Spiderwize

"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163982Author Travers LFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Westholme Publishing, U.S.Publisher Westholme Publishing, U.S.

Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears...

This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059285Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720 for free, follow the link below Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720 (uwp.co.uk) This book is freely available on a...

In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world. By 1777 it was almost unmentionable. Samuel Foote, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, is the greatest lost figure of the eighteenth century; his story defies belief and has...

What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved...

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony between an intransigent Church and the Italian state,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174898Author Marco PaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company