Title:
Events that changed the world in the eighteenth century
Author:
Thackeray, Frank W.
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Peter the Great reforms Russia, 1689-1725 / Taylor Stults -- The war of the Spanish succession, 1701-1714 / Andrew P. Trout -- The first British empire, 1701-1763 / Thomas Prasch -- The war of the Austrian succession and the Seven Years' War, 1740-1763 / Franz A.J. Szabo -- The Enlightenment, c. 1750 / Linda E. Mitchell -- The agricultural revolution, c. 1750 / Robert D. Cornwall -- The American revolution, 1763-1783 / Rick Kennedy -- The industrial revolution, c. 1775 / David Mitch -- The Atlantic slave trade, c. 1780 / Kenneth Banks -- The French revolution, 1789-1799 / Donald H. Barry.
Reading Level:
1340 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780313290770
Format :
Book
