Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History - Böcker

An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Goût de l'archive is widely regarded as a ...

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This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin's social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered "the first American," his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over...

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Shows how civil society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty without directly participating in the em...

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Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue-a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public.¿In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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In the Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. The author argues that this "enlightened" emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on argumen...

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Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten...

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This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this e...

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This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outli...

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A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later,¿in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly¿interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provid...

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After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book ...

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Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes o...

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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 Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed Eng...

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As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt c...

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In 1798 Robert Morris-"financier of the American Revolution," confidant of George Washington,¿former U.S. senator-plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the Unite...

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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 decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the ...

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An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light ¿ "An important book . . . . Vaughn has greatly added to our understanding of Britain's empire and politics."-Journal of Modern H...

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A sophisticated analysis of changing views of political virtue in the 18th century and the origins of the modern dilemma over probity and suitability for high public office

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A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade ¿ Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award ¿ "A monumental chronicle of t...

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A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political a...

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The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Towns...

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An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America: colonial New England, French Canadian, and Native American "Esther Wheelwright's journey-from Puritan girl, to Wabanaki captive,...

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An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parti...

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A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainm...

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How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution ¿ In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of polici...

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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 ...

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An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds ¿ This book studies later eighteenth-...

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A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics ¿ In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artis...

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How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy ¿ "Thought-provoking. . . . As Carter's history shows with wonderful nuance, democratic governance is about a process of ongoing negotiatio...

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A new look at the origins of humanitarian intervention ¿ We are encouraged to empathize with the suffering of distant strangers every day, from ads for UNICEF to the outcry over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But where did this type of politics com...

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How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion...

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