All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
Biography
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
March 7, 2025Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Russia
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
February 20, 2025In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
January 26, 2025The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
January 21, 2025The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
January 13, 2025Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
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