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Culture -- 18th century

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• Culture
• 18th century

• Intellectual life -- 18th century

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca Mexicana and the Rusticatio Mexicana (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Antony Higgins (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• 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)
• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.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)
• French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (second edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1932), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (first edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1931), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), by Bryan Waterman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American Thought v1; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Volume I (1607-1676): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1676-1765): multiple formats at archive.org

• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)

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

• After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Trevor Owens (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Navigating Culture: A Road Map to Culture and Development (2000), by Pekka Seppälä and Arja Vainio-Mattila (PDF in Finland)
• Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (1998), by J. M. Balkin (PDF files with commentary at culturalsoftware.com)
• Brave New World Revisited (c1958), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Cultural Selection (c1999), by Agner Fog (HTML with commentary at agner.org)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008), by D. Paul Schafer (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Address on the Culture Demanded by the Age (New York: Printed by J. F. Trow, 1869), by Frederic De Peyster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin
  • page images at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, in a Series of Essays (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797), by William Godwin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Realm of Light, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
• Culture and Anarchy (first edition, 1869), by Matthew Arnold (Gutenberg text)
• Culture and Anarchy (third edition; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Wikisource)
• The Desire of Beauty: Being Indications for Aesthetic Culture (London: J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892), by Theodore Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom, Cultural Traditions, and Progress: Philosophy in Civil Society and Nation Building, by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
• Man and Culture (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1923), by Clark Wissler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paideuma: Umrisse einer Kultur- und Seelenlehre (in German; Munich: Beck, 1921), by Leo Frobenius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Theory of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Richard Munch and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)

• Introduction to Cultural Analytics and Python (c2021), by Melanie Walsh (interactive illustrated HTML at github.io)

• Manifesto of the New Economy: Institutions and Business Models of the Digital Society (c2012), by Aleksandr Dolgin (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008), by D. Paul Schafer (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
  • Volume I (Egyptian Origines in the British Isles): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Egyptian Origines in the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Maori): multiple formats at archive.org

• Cultural Science (2008-) (full serial archives)
• International Journal of Intangible Heritage (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research (2009-) (full serial archives)
• Harper's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Süddeutsche Monatshefte (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Quotidian: Dutch Journal for the Study of Everyday Life (full serial archives)

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