All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
June 14, 2020The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Biography
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
May 22, 2020It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
May 18, 2020Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
May 16, 2020Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
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France
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
May 8, 2020In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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History
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
May 2, 2020As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
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History
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
April 27, 2020The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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Great Britain
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
April 26, 2020The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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History
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
April 26, 2020Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
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