Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

David Eltis, David Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association... Lees meer

Against War and Empire

Richard Whatmore

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these c... Lees meer

Enlightened Pleasures

Thomas M Kavanagh

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue--a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reade... Lees meer

American Enlightenments

Caroline Winterer

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revo... Lees meer

Mayhem

Nicholas Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on th... Lees meer

The Heart of the Declaration

Steve Pincus

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one ... Lees meer

Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Marilyn Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A sophisticated analysis of changing views of political virtue in the 18th century and the origins of the modern dilemma over probity and suitability ... Lees meer

World of Trouble

Richard Godbeer

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia "Describe[s] in illuminatin... Lees meer

Pathologies of Motion

Kevis Goodman

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of histo... Lees meer

Fatal Land

Matthew P Dziennik

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late... Lees meer

1688

Steve Pincus

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it--not the French... Lees meer

The Men Who Lost America

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A unique account of the American Revolution, told from the perspective of the leaders who conducted the British war effort "Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnes... Lees meer

Making the Imperial Nation

Gabriel Glickman

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas domi... Lees meer

Practical Form

Abigail Zitin

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the ... Lees meer

Vagrant Figures

Sal Nicolazzo

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innov... Lees meer

The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III

James M Vaughn

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light "An important book . . . . Vaugh... Lees meer

The Social Life of Books

Abigail Williams

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the ad... Lees meer

Democracy in Darkness

Katlyn Marie Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy "Thought-provoking. . . . As Carter's hist... Lees meer

The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, no... Lees meer

Staging the Mysterious Mother

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother , including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edit... Lees meer

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform

Edmund Burke

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• The great British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument, and his impassioned speeches and writings shaped English public life in ... Lees meer

The Social Life of Books

Abigail Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the ad... Lees meer