18th Century

The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions.

New Releases Tagged "18th Century"

Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
A Girl Called Samson
The Art of a Lie
The Last Witch of Scotland
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
The Square of Sevens
The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
Pandora
The Bookseller of Inverness
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)
Mrs. Benedict Arnold
The Mourning Necklace
Candide
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Castle of Otranto
The Monk
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Evelina
Moll Flanders
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Pamela
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Räuber by Friedrich SchillerLove And Intrigue by Friedrich SchillerGötz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFiesco; Or, the Genoese Conspiracy by Friedrich Schiller
Sturm und Drang
41 books — 15 voters
Karkhana by Waswo X. WaswoNew Science by Giambattista VicoThe Contest for Knowledge by Maria Gaetana AgnesiBernini's Beloved by Sarah McPheeBernini by Franco Mormando
Early Modern Italy (1600-1800)
56 books — 9 voters

Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
445 books — 148 voters
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi LeeChains by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Poison Diaries by Maryrose WoodRevolution by Jennifer DonnellyNightshade by Maryrose Wood
YA Fiction set in the 1700s
100 books — 28 voters


Robert Kagan
It is difficult to recapture the apprehension, even paranoia, that gripped the nation's most sober leaders in these early years of the American political experiment. No one was confident that the new republican institutions would survive. There was no clear path to success, and no past record against which to compare the unfolding of events. The emergence of political parties was unexpected and troubling, even to those who helped bring them into being. Each side in the great political conflict t ...more
Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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