The Global Eighteenth Century

Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a long eighteenthcentury one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. Felicity A. Nussbaum andthe contributor... » 

Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a long eighteenthcentury one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. Felicity A. Nussbaum andthe contributors to this volume take this idea one step further positing aneighteenth century that is wide as well as long reaching beyond Europe intothe African diaspora the Americas the Levant China India and Oceania. Thiscollection of essays adds a crucial historical element to the emerging conceptof the global. «