Promoting Potatoes in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Eighteenth-Century Europe

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...

Historians and eighteenth-century Europe, 1715–1789

Reviewed by Roy Porter, M.A., Ph.D., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Rd, London NWI 2BP. In his brisk and clear book, Professor Anderson traces the development of historical interpretation of some leading issues of eighteenth-century history from the verdicts of contemporaries up to the present day. Changing evaluations of eighteenthcentury rulers such as Frederick th...

The immunization of cattle against rinderpest in eighteenth-century Europe.

Rinderpest is caused by a morbillivirus closely related to the measles and canine distemper viruses. The pathology and symptomatology of the three diseases are very similar,1 but in terms of mortality, rinderpest is by far the most lethal; in European cattle the death rate often exceeds 80 per cent. The disease was eradicated in Europe over a hundred years ago, but in the eighteenth century an ...

Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

The President introduced his remarks by a short survey of the social and economic conditions in Bristol in the middle of the eighteenth century, with acknowledgments to Latimer's Annals of Bristol in the eighteenth century, Munro Smith's History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and other sources. He quoted from English Social History: " Good doctoring rather than better social conditions was the...