The Memoirs of an English Officer, Who Serv'd in the Dutch War in 1672. to the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713.
History of Glasgow; and of Paisley, Greenock, and Port-Glasgow; ... Volume 1 of 2
by Andrew Brown
Shamanism (Bollingen Series (General)) (Princeton Classics)
by Mircea Eliade
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authorit...
An Account of the Life and Writings of Herman Boerhaave, ... in Two Parts. with an Appendix
by William Burton
Sketches of the History of Man. in Two Volumes. ... of 2; Volume 2
by Henry Home Kames
Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850 (People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History)
by Peter Kirby
Historians have long recognised the importance of child health during the Industrial Revolution, but few have explored the health of working children in any analytical detail. In this comprehensive study, Peter Kirby places the occupational health of employed children within a broad context of social, industrial and environmental change during the period 1780 to 1850. The book explores the deformities, fevers, respiratory complaints, industrial injuries and physical ill-treatment which have long...
Proceedings and Debates of the Parliament of Pimlico, in the Last Session of the Eighteenth Century
Francoise de Graffigny (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:11)
by English Showalter
The story of Francoise de Graffigny's life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel - the Lettres d'une Peruvienne (1747) - that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play - Cenie (1750) - that ranked among the ten most succ...
Beaumarchais wrote "The Marriage of Figaro," in 1778, putting a noble and his valet on the stage. This work was judged inadmissible and insidious and was banned by royal censors when it was to be staged in 1781. It did nothing but describe the society of its time in a critical way... Ten years after its writing, in 1788, the nation was set on the course towards chaos. The future excesses of the French Revolution couldn't have been conceived of without taking into account a knowledge of the event...
The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. by Conyers Middleton, ... the Second Edition. Volume 1 of 3
by Conyers Middleton
Celenia and Adrastus; With the Delightful History of Hyempsal, King of Numidia
by The Persian Zelis