Warfare on three continents, empire building, and revolution—political, agricultural, and industrial—dominate 18th-century world history. In Europe royal dy

Contains 343 chronologically arranged entries that provide information about notable geopolitical events, social and cultural developments, scientific achieveme

Describes and evaluates the global impact of ten of the eighteenth century's most important events.

During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-develope

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian