18th century
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Betsy Ross and the American Flag
Christianity as old as the creation
The early modern Atlantic economy
Firearms in colonial America
The "conquest" of Acadia, 1710
La femme au dix-huitieme siecle
The Whiskey Rebellion
The right-wing press in France, 1792-1800
Uncertain unions
Joseph Haydn's keyboard music
Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the revolution controversy
18th century Europe, 1713-1789
The clandestine organization and diffusion of philosophic ideas in France from 1700 to 1750
Man versus society in eighteenth-century Britain: six points of view
My lady scandalous
Saltwater slavery
Nuts and bolts of the past
Italy
People & their homes
Costume close-up
Europe in the eighteenth century
The prince and the quakeress
A Respectable Trade
Beethoven and his forerunners
The history of the modern taste in gardening
The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789
An essay on man
War under heaven
Fantasy, the literature of subversion
What Life Was Like in Europe's Romantic Era
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