World History
18th Century
Life
Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html
This extensive list covers the entire century with information and links.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Check the long list in green and click on your area of interest.
First Copyright Act
http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html
The Statute of Anne, 1710. This site has a facsimile from the British
Library of the first copyright for the Book Trade in Politics: The Making of
the Copyright Act of 1710.
History of Copyright
http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/resources/copyright/history.htm
Romanticism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html
From the roots of Romanticism, visit Rousseau's Confessions, and then
move to later philosophers, and artists.
18th Century European Dress
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eudr/hd_eudr.htm
The changing, revolutionizing century has become an icon in the history of
fashion.
Costume Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org/History/100pages/18thlinks.htm
18th Century Costumes Resources
Industrial Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
From the 17th and 18th Century
Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html
Parliamentary commissions began to investigate the industrial employment of
women and children in the early 1840's.
Child Labor 1750-1900
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
Areas covered: life in the factory, factory reformers, supporters of child
labor, factory workers, laws, statistics and more.
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.30.00/
Information about life in Europe.
Liberalism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook18.html
The Beginnings of Liberalism have their birth
in the 1700's. Areas include the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Chapters, Laissez-Faire Economics, Radical Politics, Civil Disobedience,
and even the beginning of Feminism.
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18 Century Upheavals
History of Europe
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1127&HistoryID=ab06
This page covers upheavals in the 18th Century, but you can visit other time
periods.
The Age of George III
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/18chome.htm
The time of George III was far-reaching. This site covers Ireland,
Ministries, American Affairs, Political Personalities, Britain and India,
Peace (1783-1793), France and Britain and the age of the French Wars. Other
links are included including Primary Sources.
Documents in Military History
http://www.hillsdale.edu/personal/stewart/war/
Documents from this site go back to Ancient History beginning 32BC.
Statistics of Wars, Oppressions and Atrocities of the 18th Century (the
1700s)
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars18c.htm
Documents include The Slave Trade, Seven Years War, French Revolutionary
Wars including the Napoleonic Wars, Spanish Succession, and many more.
Woman as Warriors in the 18th Century
http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/women18.html
Short biographies and a few links.
Exploring the French Revolution with maps
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/browse/maps/
13 maps illustrate changing European borders, military campaigns, and sites
of Parisian revolutionary activity.
Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713 Part 1
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/dow/chap13/dow13_4.htm
Events in Europe bring on a war between France and England, bring war to the
Colonies.
Queen Anne's War - The 2nd French and Indian War
http://www.colonialwarsct.org/1702.htm
(War of the Spanish Succession) This is the time of a French and Indian raid
in Massachusetts and another British attempt to take Quebec.
1712
http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/bourbon/france/success/sucprt2.htm
Part 2: The Will, the Treaties and the Renunciations
1713
http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/bourbon/france/success/d3-5utr.htm
Part 3 Treaty of Utrecht
By which the war in America is ended. 1713
http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/TreatyofUtrecht1713-QuebecHistory.htm
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Socialism, Liberalism, and Reform
Liberalism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook18.html
The Beginnings of Liberalism have their birth
in the 1700's. Areas include the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Chapters, Laissez-Faire Economics, Radical Politics, Civil Disobedience,
and even the beginning of Feminism.
Socialism
http://www.history-ontheweb.co.uk/concepts/socialism11.htm
Socialism as a political movement was very much a response to the
consequences of industrialization.
Utilitarianism
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst=1&defl=en&q=define:Utilitarianism&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Definitions on the Web.
Milestones in the Development of Social Work 1750BC - 1700's
http://www.socialworkers.org/profession/centennial/milestones_1.htm
King Hammurabi issues his code of
justice, which includes a requirement that the people help one another
during times of hardship.
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