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History Topics > Eighteenth-Century Studies

C-18 - A collaborative project between institutions and researchers, which aims at providing a coherent global index of all scholarly web sites concerning the eighteenth century, publishing electronically eighteenth-century texts, reference works, indexes, leanrings resources and research tools. Local links (by Jak Lynch) to historical monographies such as American and British history; interesting sources- though not easily reachable - about English civil war, the South Sea Bubble, criminal law, in particular the penalty of death, in England, Robert Walpole, royal genealogyes, the Irish revolt im 1788.

C18-L (Kevin Berland) - International and  interdisciplinary forum, discussing the different aspects of eighteenth century studies. Users need subscription.

Eighteenth Century digitization Project -E18 is one of the first electronic publications to serve the needs of a community of researchers under the continuing guidance of the researchers themselves. Primary Source Media will create scanned images of materials the greatest number of ESTC users require. Digital facsimiles of these books, pamphlets, broadsides and other materials will be linked to their corresponding ESTC records. 

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts (University of Pennsylvania) - The searchable catalogue includes most of the electronic editions of eighteenth century works publicly available on the network. Interesting collection of anonymous and various authors.

Eighteenth-Century France Homepage - Divulgative site about eighteenth century music and figurative arts during the reign of Marie Antoinette.

The European Enlightenment -By Richard Hooker, an extensive overview of 17th- and 18th-c. Europe.  (JavaScript)

French Revolutionary Pamphlets  (University of Chicago) - A small collection of pamphlets published during the French Revolution. Text page images with navigation aids by Mark Olsen.

Stanford Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution - This  website  provides lectures and discussions, held at the Stanford University from 1996, about eighteenth century and the afterlife of ideas and movements historically associated with it. Local link to the programme of the international conference Regimes of description in the archives of the eighteenth century, held at the Stanford Univ. in 1996.

Voice of the Shuttle:Restoration and the eighteenth century - The site is part of the English Literature Main Page; a guide of general internet resources about eighteenth  century (music, philosophy, religion, theology etc.) .The section History is particulary relevant, gathering a wide choice of links to websites, journals, essays and references online.

Voltaire Foundation - The site gives information about the Voltaire Foundation publications, among which the Voltaire électronique, an edition on CD-rom with unpublished materials and totallly indexed, is noteworthy. A search engine permits to query any text in the site, which also contains a small selection of eighteenth century e-texts.

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