North America during the Eighteenth Century: A Geographical History

Eighteenth Century Medicine in America

Pious traders in medicine: a German pharmaceutical network in eighteenth-century North America

findings, Evenden dismisses almost completely. These texts, predominantly written by male medical practitioners, are, in her view, of little use to illuminate the world of female birth practice. She argues that male practitioners had hardly any obstetrical practice, and, with regard to the theoretical basis, their treatises present only an untidy mixture of useless Galenic or humoral theory, ma...

An eighteenth-century case history: Carlisle Spedding 1738

Carlisle Spedding was principal colliery steward to the Lowther family from about 1730 until his death in 1755. He was responsible for their mining interests, centred on Whitehaven in West Cumberland. His work frequently took him underground, where he was exposed to the inflammable gases found in mines. Ventilation methods were still primitive, and as a result of his exposure Spedding was frequ...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...