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2 giorni fa · Qing China reached its largest extent during the 18th century, when it ruled China proper (eighteen provinces) as well as the areas of present-day Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, at approximately 13 million km 2 in size.
4 giorni fa · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
3 giorni fa · Early modern European history is usually seen to span from the start of the 15th century, through the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.
2 giorni fa · Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521774277; 318pp.; Price: £17.99. The history of the Enlightenment can sometimes appear as a male narrative, dominated by canonical male writers, with women appearing only as subjects denied an equality of rationality and ...
2 giorni fa · By the late 18th century, as fine white flour and sugar became readily available, the baking of pastries enjoyed a boom. Such newly elaborate cookery required a battery of equipment much larger than the huge pot or kettle that had previously ruled the kitchen.
5 giorni fa · From what has been said it will be clear that in a city whose cathedral was dominated by whig churchmen, religious life throughout the 18th century followed the pattern eulogized by Archbishop Sharpe at the beginning of the century: 'both as to doctrine and worship the purest church ... in the world: the most orthodox in faith, the ...
4 giorni fa · London Lives gathers together an unparalleled array of manuscript and printed sources containing evidence that can be used to reconstruct everyday life in the 18th-century metropolis. This project incorporates the records digitized for the Old Bailey Online alongside a vast collection of other documents and, like the Old Bailey ...
