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3 giu 2024 · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
31 mag 2024 · 18th century. The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was triggered by the death without issue of the last Habsburg king of Spain, Charles II, who fixed the Spanish inheritance on Philip, Duke of Anjou, the grandson of King Louis XIV of France.
3 giu 2024 · Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world, driving changes in energy use, socioeconomics, and culture.
3 giu 2024 · 18th century. Romanticism: 1798–1837. Victorian literature: 1837–1900. 20th century. 21st-century literature. Literary institutions. See also. References. Bibliography. External links. British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.
27 mag 2024 · Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
31 mag 2024 · Eighteenth Century. Nineteenth Century. Twentieth Century - Present. Global and Postcolonial Literature. Microfilms. Library special collections. Colonial discourses: series one: women, travel and empire, 1660-1914. English cartoons and satirical prints, 1320-1832.
27 mag 2024 · In the 17th and 18th centuries, the crown exercised control over its colonies chiefly in the areas of trade and shipping. In accordance with the mercantilist philosophy of the time, the colonies were regarded as a source of necessary raw materials for England and were granted monopolies for their products, such as tobacco and sugar ...
