All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Art
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Historical Fiction
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
July 2, 2026Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
France
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 18, 2026In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
History
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
June 9, 2026As 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
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Great Britain
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The 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
May 13, 2026Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
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