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18c:
"Beer
Street" - engraving by William Hogarth |
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18c:
"Gin
Lane" - engraving by William Hogarth |
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1719:
Daniel Defoe - On the Education
of Women |
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1721:
The
Second Part of the South Sea Bubble |
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1722:
British Poor Relief Act |
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1726:
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift |
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1729:
A Modest Proposal for
Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being A
Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial
to The Public - Jonathan Swift |
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1731:
Selected Sources on the Organisation of Work and the Guilds -
Imperial Law
Concerning the Abuses of the Guilds, Regensburg (8/16) |
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1736:
"The
Distressed Poet" - painting by William Hogarth |
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1740:
"God Save
the King" - lyrics to the British national anthem |
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1740:
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson |
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1745:
A Letter to The Female Spectator on the Study of Natural
Philosophy |
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1749:
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding |
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1756:
Edmund Burke -
On Taste |
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1760:
David Hume -
Of the Standard of Taste
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1762:
Peter III's Manifesto Freeing Nobles from Obligatory
Service |
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1767:
Catherine the Great's Instruction to the Legislative
Commission |
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1767:
Adam Ferguson - An Essay on the
History of Civil Society |
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1768:
Summa
Quae - Pope Clement XIII's Encyclical on the Church in Poland
(1/6) |
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1770:
"The Death of
Wolfe" - painting by Benjamin West |
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1772:
Speech on India in the House of Commons - Robert Clive |
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1773:
A
Letter to Her Mother - Marie Antoinette
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1773:
India
Regulating Act |
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1774:
Pugachev's last ukaz (June) and Petition of Serfs in Kungur District,
Perm' Province, to "Peter III"
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1774-1776: Jacques
Turgot - Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
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1775:
Anecdotes
on the Countess du Barry |
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1775:
Proclamation of Rebellion - King George III of England responding to
increasing
hostilities in the American colonies |
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1776:
"The
Cost of Empire" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations |
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1776:
"Of Colonies" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of
Nations |
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1776:
The
Principle of the Mercantile System
- Adam Smith |
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1778:
Evelina, or A History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
- Fanny Burney |
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1780s:
Letter on the Loss of America - King George III of England (.pdf
file) |
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1781:
Account
to the Kind - Jacques Necker |
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1781:
Memorandum
Against Necker - Count Charles Gravier de Vergennes |
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1782:
British Poor Relief Act
[Gilbert's Act] |
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1783:
Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States of North
America (2/25) |
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1883:
Speech in the House of Commons by Sir Edmund Burke |
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1788:
Louis
XVI's Reply to the Parlement of Paris |
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1789:
Cahier
of 1789, The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin |
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1789:
Cahier
of 1789, The Nobility of Blois |
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1789:
Cahier
of 1789, The Third Estate of Versailles |
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1789:
"What
is the Third Estate?" - Abbé Sieyes |
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1794:
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Friedrich von
Schiller |
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1808:
Faust - Goethe |
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1829:
Aboard
a Slave Ship |
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1888:
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth |
