Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth Century Links
- Dry Drunk From the New York Public Library comes an in-depth exhibit and exploration of the culture of tobacco in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- 18th Century History A portal for the age starting with the Glorious Revolution and ending with the July Revolution. Provides timeline and feature articles on society, lifestyle, famous figures, and significant events.
- History of Catalonia Contains sections on 18th Century Catalonia.
- The Jay Treaty Signed on November 19, 1794 with Great Britain to avert a second war with the colonies.
- History of the Philippines Brief chronology of major 18th century events in the Philippines.
- Sikh History A large and impressive page on Sikh culture and history, including a section on 18th-c. Sikh warriors.
- War and Society in 18th Century Germany: Documents The Documents in German History Project is intended to make available material to students without the requisite language skills to study it in the original." A number of treaties, codes, and declarations in English and German.
- Eighteenth-Century Chronology Important milestones in arts, science, and politics listed year by year from 1660 to 1800.
- Recollections of An Old Soldier by Captain David Perry (1741-1826) Memoir of Capt David Perry, MA provincial soldier (Ticonderoga, NY and NS); ranger in Canada (Quebec, NF); American patriot (CT); Northeast American/Canadian history - War of 1812; notes. Written for his posterity.
- 16th to 18th Century History Articles Brief essays (more journalistic than scholarly) on newspaper coverage of early American history.
- Eighteenth-Century Resources Jack Lynch provides an extensive list of links to sites on the internet dealing with 18th century art, architecture, history, literature, music, religion, science, and mathematics among other fields.
- L'Age d'Or An impressive site containing a lot of information on both the French and English Baroque periods.
- Timeline of the 18th century A chart of the major events in the 18th century.
- C18-L's Selective Readings An online running international bibliography of scholarly work in 18th-century studies in all disciplines. A volunteer project edited by Kevin Berland.
- History -- The 18th Century The starting place to find information about the 18th century. Each link is hand picked by your guide. This site also maintains a bullettin board, chat, and a newsletter, all free.
- Dictionary of Sensibility A new approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language by collecting excerpts from primary texts of sensibility and scattering them among twenty four key terms.
- Political Movers and Shakers of the Enlightenment Miles Hodges profiles individuals in Europe and the American colonies and provides additional sources and links.
- The Vision of Human Progress A full-text lecture about the thought of Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet and its relation to the idea of progress in 18th century Europe.
- 18th Century Life - an online magazine an online magazine about everyday life in the 1700's. Published bimonthly, it contains sections on cooking, book reviews, a letters page for questions and comments, and features.
- Pierre Marteau's Publishing House An assortment of images and bibliographies relating primarily to eighteenth-century history of the Germanies.
- Eighteenth-Century Studies This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period are kept here (in some cases, influential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with modern criticism.
- Eighteenth-Century England Multimedia cultural history research projects created by literature students at the University of Michigan.
- Early Modern History As part of History Network of Virtual Library (University of Kansas) this site is the central catalogue of Early Modern History ressources in the Internet.
- The Enlightenment An outline of the development and major ideas of the European Enlightenment.
- Political Change and Conflict- Age of Revolutions Unit 3 of an Entire World History Course that covers French and American Revolutions with emphasis on how revolutions occur.
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