American Almanacs in the Eighteenth Century

Probabilistic topic decomposition of an eighteenth-century American newspaper

vector space model for text data (Salton & McGill, 1983). In this model, each document in a corpus is represented by a term-frequency vector whose elements are the number of occurrences of each word in the vocabulary. Collectively, the set of these term-frequency vectors forms the document– word matrix representation of the corpus. All the methods we consider have this document–word matrix repr...

English Almanacs and Animal Health Care in the Seventeenth Century

In seventeenth-century England, the health and welfare of nonhuman animals rested almost solely on the shoulders of their keepers. Veterinary institutions had not yet been founded, and academically trained animal doctors did not exist. Laymen, however, had access to a great deal of information on animal health care. A range of printed publications were available that offered medical advice. The...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe