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Important milestones in arts, science, and politics listed year by year from 1660 to 1800.
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Eighteenth-Century Chronology This site is very much in progress, even experimental; I take no responsibility for the countless stupidities in my pages at this point. I'll announce its existence widely when it's ready. If you care to comment, though, write to Jack...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.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chs...rint/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
As part of History Network of Virtual Library (University of Kansas) this site is the central catalogue of Early Modern History resources in the Internet.
http://www-geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz/
Unit 3 of an Entire World History Course that covers French and American Revolutions with emphasis on how revolutions occur.
http://killeenroos.com/3/calendar.html
An online running international bibliography of scholarly work in 18th-century studies in all disciplines. A volunteer project edited by Kevin Berland.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm
Signed on November 19, 1794 with Great Britain to avert a second war with the colonies.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/jay.htm
Multimedia cultural history research projects created by literature students at the University of Michigan.
http://www.umich.edu/~ece
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.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~d...ptdavidperry/captdavidperry.html
Articles and critical studies about books and publications in late 17th and early 18th century. Links to resources dealing with the period.
http://www.pierre-marteau.com/
Brief chronology of major 18th century events in the Philippines.
http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/chrono3.htm
Brief essays (more journalistic than scholarly) on newspaper coverage of early American history.
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refseventeen.html
Interdisciplinary annual founded for the purpose of supporting study of early modern thought, by publishing research pertinent the human sciences as they were conceived during the period.
http://www.eighteenthcenturythought.org/
An article about the history and heritage of the movement. Covers England, America and the struggle in Europe.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html
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.
http://eserver.org/18th/
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.
http://www.history1700s.com/
Contains sections on 18th Century Catalonia.
http://www.gencat.net/historia/aindex.htm
Undergraduate essays by Donald Stark on eighteenth century European political and intellectual history.
http://www.donaldstark.co.uk/EC18.html
Transcriptions of selected issues of Philadelphia's first newspaper from February 1722 to July 1741. Also provides information about early newspapers and their operation, biographies, and related links.
http://caxton.stockton.edu/AWM/
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.
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/enec981/dictionary/