Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism.
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During the eighteenth century, China’s new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever
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During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had
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James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society—an ideal of collective life between the famil
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James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil societyan ideal of collective life between the famil
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In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in
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London in the 18th century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of
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Illuminates the nature and social significance of crime in eighteenth-century England and reveals attitudes toward publi
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Presents true stories of women from 18th century London such as Martha Ray, Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald, Amelia Aderson O
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This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "custo
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