Time period: 18th century

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736.

In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant.

The ideal guide to Nelson's navy for those with an interest in the workings of a great fleet.

This book challenges the view that England had no peasantry, or that it had disappeared before industrialization. Rather it shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages.

A great late-18th century classic of Polish/French fiction, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a web of stories reminiscent of the Arabian Nights. The narrator of the story tells of the brigands, demons, succubi and evangelists he encounters.

This work features the salacious, seditious & scandalous nature of best-selling books banned during the French Enlightenment. Drawing on 25 years of research, Darnton's history of these books, presents an unorthodox guide to the ancien regime.

The New Oxford History of Music is an authoritative ten-volume survey of classical music from ancient times up to 1960. Each volume is devoted to a recognised period in music history, and is written by noted scholars in the field.

With the Pleasures of the Imagination, John Brewer examines the birth and development of English 'high culture' in the 18th century. Brewer's previous book was The Sinews of Power. Brewer's classic volume transforms our view of England in the 18th century as comprehensively as Simon Schama's The ...

Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitous Jacobite rebellion. This is the last of Scott's major Scottish novels, and perhaps his most complex statement about the relationship between history and fiction.

This volume in the annual survey of Shakespeare studies is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century.