17c Enlightenment Thought  The Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's Museums Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (biography) The Bourbons:  A Genealogical Chart (France) The Continental Enlightenment:  Jean Jacques Rousseau Creating French Culture:  Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France David Hume (biography) The Deist Document "Écrasez I'infâme!:  The Triumph of Science and the Heavenly City of the 18c philosophe" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History The Encyclopèdie Project The Edict of Tolerance and the Jews Eighteenth Resources on the Net Europe and the Enlightenment:  The Philosophes French Deism The French Enlightenment The Hohenzollerns:  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg/Prussia) The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine:  Genealogical Chart Immanuel Kant (biography) Jean Jacques Rousseau - the Rousseau Association John Locke (biography) John Locke:  The Philosopher of Freedom Key European & World Figures Born Between 1600-1797  (timeline) Major Events in the World During 1650-1800  (timeline) Map-->"Science and the Enlightenment" "The New Intellectual Order--Man, Nature, and Society" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History NM's Creative Impulse:  The Development of Western Civilization - The Age of Enlightenment (mucho links) The Philosophes People of Ideas:  The Enlightenment Poetry, Literature, & Significant Literary Events During the Age of Reason:  1650--1800  (timeline) The Political Movers and Shakers of the Enlightenment "The Racism of the 18c Social Sciences" The Rebirth of Philosophy The Reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II René Descartes (biography) Rococo Style Significant Building & Engineering Events of the Enlightenment Period:  1656-1799  (timeline) The Spanish Bourbons:  Genealogical Chart The Spanish Habsburgs:  Genealogical Chart  Thomas Hobbes (biography) Transportation Inventions & Events of the Enlightenment Period  (timeline) "The Vision of Human Progress:  Vico, Gibbon, and Condorcet" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History "Voltaire and Frederick the Great" - from Books and Characters, French and English by Lytton Strachey, 1915;  edited by Geoffrey Sauer "Who Was Voltaire?"

1689:  "A Letter Concerning Toleration" - John Locke 1690:  "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" - John Locke  1690:  Two Treatises on Government - John Locke (full text) 1693:  Some Thoughts on Education - John Locke early 18c:  A Short History of Methodism - John Wesley 1710:  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley 1719:  (On) the Education of Women - Daniel Defoe 1721:  The Persian Letters (No. 13) - Charles De Secondant Montesquieu 1748:  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume 1748:  The Spirit of Laws - Charles De Secondat Montesquieu 1752:  A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1757:  The Natural History of Education - David Hume 1758:  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume 1759:  Candide - Voltaire 1759:  A Letter on the Subject of Candide to the Journal Encyclopédique - Voltaire 1762:  The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Roussueau 1763:  A Treatise on Toleration - Voltaire 1764:  Essays on Crime and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria 1764:  The Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire 1764:  "Religion" from A Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire 1775:  An Essay on Crimes and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria 1776:  Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson 1776-1788:  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbons 1778:  Mary Wollstonecraft's Early Views on Education 1778:  On Francis Bacon--from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques - Voltaire 1778:  Voltaire's Letters on Sir Isaac Newton 1780:  Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham (full text) 1781:  The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant   1782:  The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau     1784:  What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant 1794:  On the Future Progress of the Human Mind - Marquis de Condocert late 18c:  The Salon (excerpts from several observers of the period on the women)

                                                  

Adam Smith- The Wealth of Nations Advantages and Disadvantages of the Open Field System (interactive web chart) The African American - A Journey from Slavery to Freedom British Conquest of India Causes of the Industrial Revolution "Century of the Furnace--Episode 8" (Millennium series) Eighteenth Resources on the Net The Emancipation of British Women:  1750-1920 (Spartacus) "Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945" - tutorial with documents and other resources The First Industrial Revolution - up to 1840 (BBC) Globalization Since the Fourteenth Century The Growth of the Slave Trade in North America History of England:  Age of Empire Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution Reference The Industrial Revolution- Technology and Social Effects Inventions of the Industrial Revolution (BBC) Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England - Arnold Toynbee (1884) The Luddites:  1811-1812 (Spartacus Site) Map-->"African Diaspora:  Slave Routes Throughout the World" Map-->"English Common Lands Enclosed by Acts of Parliament:  1700-1850" Map-->"Industrial England:  Early 19c" Map-->"The Seven Years' War" Map-->"Triangle Trade" Mercantilism - an outline (by R. Larry Reynolds (Boise State U.) Mercantilism, the Physiocrats, and Adam Smith The Mercantilists Modern India -- 1757 AD to 1947 AD (Itihaas) NM's Creative Impulse:  The Development of Western Civilization - The Industrial Revolution (mucho links) The Physiocrats - an outline (Prof. Reynolds - Boise State U.) Seven Years War The Slave Trade "The Social Aspects of Industrialization" - tutorial with documents and other resources

 

1732:  A Description of New Guinea" - John Barbot 1743:  A Letter from Thomas Hancock 1767:  Spinning Jenny - James Hargraves 1776:  The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 1778:  First Watt engine (animated) 1786:  Leeds Woolen Workers Petition 1788:  A Slave Trade Journal - Dr. Alexander Falconbridge 1791:  Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants 1793:  A Slave's Accounting 1794:  Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning 1795:  Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City - John Aikin 1798:  An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus  19c:  Images of the Industrial Revolution in England  19c:  Table Showing the Comparative Weight of Factory & Non-Factory English Children 1800:  Petition for Poor Relief 1802:  The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1806:  House of Commons Select Committee on The Woollen Industry 1807:  Child Labor in Cotton Factories - Robert Southey, Letters from England 1812:  A Luddite attack on a Yorkshire mill 1812:  Luddite Oath 1813-49:  Various Descriptions of Workhouse Children, England 1814:  The English Corn Laws 1816:  Evidence of James Pattison (on the state of health and morals of children employed in manufactories) 1818:  Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System - Robert Owen 1819:  Opposition to the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill  1819:  The Six Acts 1823:  "The Steam Loom" - Richard Guest 1830s?:  Power Loom - weaving in England