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Civilization, Modern -- 18th century

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• Civilization, Modern -- 18th century -- Congresses

• The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Ferenc Feher (HTML at UC Press)

• Eighteenth-Century Florida: The Impact of the American Revolution (papers from the 5th annual Bicentennial Symposium, March 1976; Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1978), ed. by Samuel Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)
• Rosenberg's Nazi Myth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1945), by Albert Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World (London: Williams and Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Ernst Troeltsch, trans. by W. Montgomery (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, ed. by Herbert J. C. Grierson (HTML at Bartleby)

• Mr. White Man, What Now? (Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel, 1965), by G. M. Mes (PDF at rhodesia.nl)
• Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age (c1992), by David Lavery (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture, by George Steiner (HTML at anti-rev.org)
• The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Raoul Vaneigem, trans. by John Fullerton and Paul Sieveking (HTML at nothingness.org)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Lies! (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)

• The XXth Century (1941-1945), ed. by Klaus Mehnert (full serial archives)

• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Simon Gunn and James Vernon (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• The Public Philosophy Journal (2018-) (full serial archives)

• The Scot Abroad (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1881), by John Hill Burton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by S. J. Barnett (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Nature and Culture: Ethical Thought in the French Enlightenment (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lester G. Crocker (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• An Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought (originally published 1959; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lester G. Crocker (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment (New York: King's Crown Press, Columbia University 1948), by Charles Frankel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Remy G. Saisselin (HTML at UC Press)
• Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (annotated 1784 German text and modern English translation), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Stephen Orr (HTML with commentary at github.io)
• Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Christopher Rocco (HTML at UC Press)

• The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660-1730 (c1992), by Justin Champion (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic Thought of the French Enlightenment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1971), by Francis X. J. Coleman (page images at Pitt)
• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), by Robert Darnton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Creative Commons reprint; multiple formats at archive.org

• The "Tzemach Tzedek" and the Haskalah Movement, by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn (HTML at jewish-history.com)

• A View of England Towards the Close of the 18th Century (2 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791), by Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• The Enlightenment Against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Remy G. Saisselin (HTML at UC Press)
• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

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