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 Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History
French E-texts from the late 18th century on political liberty.
This page, edited by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark, is part of the larger collection of Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net.
A huge and impressive archive of mostly primary material on modern European and American history, including much on the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: 18th century
The 18th Century was the period of the so-called "enlightened absolutism" and was the time when political changes began that would lead to the modern nation state.
Other important aspects of the 18th century were the rise of cultural centers such as Paris and Vienna where nations could boast their power, enlightenment, and impression to the rest of Europe.
France's absolutism would generate the peasant revolts that, for the first time, would begin to shake the old ways and feudal life.
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/1/18/18T/18th_century

  
 Accounting Historians Journal, The: Eighteenth-Century Book-keeping: Twelve Encyclopedia Articles
Also, because the examples included in the book span some eighty years it is possible to make comparisons and observe the evolution of the practice of book-keeping over this period.
This book illustrates that interest by reproducing articles from encyclopedias published during that period.
The eighteenth century witnessed an increasing interest in double-entry book-keeping or the `Italian Method' as it was often referred to.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3657/is_199706/ai_n8773659

  
 Yugoslav literature -> The Eighteenth Century on Encyclopedia.com 2002
Literature suffered a decline in the 18th cent., when Dubrovnik's political independence was crushed, and a general imitation of foreign writings took hold.
Yugoslav literature -> The Eighteenth Century on Encyclopedia.com 2002
The Late Nineteenth Century: Realism and Psychological Interest
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Yugolit_TheEighteenthCentury.asp

  
 te Heesen, Anke: The World in a Box
4 Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14785.ctl

  
 HPL: Books (and One Play) By Title
Written in 1620, this book is a source for Whisp's Quidditch Through the Ages, though not to the degree of Zacharias Mumps' work.
Umfraville's book includes a diagram of the seventeeth century pitch, and makes clear that the position of Keeper had evolved by the author's time to the responsibilities it includes today (QA6).
Not surprisingly, Nicolas Flamel isn't mentioned in this book (PS12).
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/books.html

  
 Databases - E list
The ESTC can be used to find references to reel numbers in the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books microfilm collections.
Available in the State Reference Library - ask at the Information Desk.
Combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave and Wing, so its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca.
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/alphabet/e.cfm

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