Saving Eighteenth-Century New Smyrnea: Public Archaeology in Action

Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin.

IN RECENT YEARS A NUMBER OF HISTORIANS have been at pains to point out that the patterns and nature of public disorders in eighteenth-century Ireland are largely comparable with those that existed elsewhere in contemporary Western Europe. Irish riots and popular protests, it has been suggested, saw ‘a controlled and discriminating use of violence’, and were characterised by their ‘defensive, ri...

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

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...

Spanish scientists in the New World. The eighteenth-century expeditions

IRIS H. W. ENGSTRAND, Spanish scientists in the New World. The eighteenth-century expeditions, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 220, illus., £17.50. Changes of policy, the Napoleonic conflict, and the collapse of the Spanish Empire meant that the massive amount of documentation and other materials arising from the Spanish expeditions to the New World durin...