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  • The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867

    by Asa Briggs ...
    Series series Silver Library
    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 Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises ... Read more

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  • Emile

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. Due to a section of the book entitled “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar,” Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, ... Read more

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  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

    or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

    by Olaudah Equiano ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-PharrIn this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative “is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling ... Read more

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  • Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    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 urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical ... Read more

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  • Naturalists at Sea

    Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

    by Glyn Williams ...
    On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world.   This ... Read more

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  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in ... Read more

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  • Honours of War

    Wargames Rules for the Seven Years’ War

    by Keith Flint ...
    Series series Osprey Wargames
    The Seven Years' War was the pinnacle of 18th-century warfare, with dramatic campaigns and battles, famous leaders, and wide variety of colourful uniforms. Compared with the later Napoleonic Wars, tactics were simpler, armies more professional, and battles tended to be smaller. Using these quick-to-learn rules, players can bring this period to the tabletop, recreating anything from a small ... Read more

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  • Partners of the Empire

    The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions

    by Ali Yaycioglu ...
    Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codified—and annulled. The ... Read more

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  • Liberator Daniel O'Connell

    The Life and Death of Daniel O'Connell, 1830-1847

    by Patrick M. Geoghegan ...
    In this sequel to his critically acclaimed King Dan, Patrick Geoghegan examines the latter part of O'Connell's life and career. Daniel O'Connell, often referred to as The Liberator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. One of the most remarkable historical figures in Irish history, he campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, including the right for Catholics to sit in ... Read more

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  • The Cynics Breviary, The Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

    by Nicolas de Chamfort ...
    The worst wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed - Nicolas de Chamfort. Nicolas de Chamfort (1741 1794) was a French author, known for his sharp wit. He served as secretary to Louis XVIs Sister Madame Elisabeth. During the French Revolution, Chamfort served briefly as secretary for the Jacobin club. The last year of his life was spent in agony after a botched suicide ... Read more

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  • Camden 1780

    The annihilation of Gates’ Grand Army

    by David Smith ...
    Series Book 292 - Campaign
    As the American Revolution continued, the British refocused their fight on the southern colonies in the hopes of triggering an outbreak of loyalism that would sweep the rebels aside.Under Sir Henry Clinton they captured Savannah at the end of 1778, and Charleston in May 1780, with Lord Cornwallis being left in command with just 8,500 men under him. Too thinly spread to guard the 15,000 square ... Read more

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  • Black Ranching Frontiers

    African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

    by Andrew Sluyter, Ph.D ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world.Sluyter shows that Africans’ ideas and creativity helped to establish a production ... Read more

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