Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Other Fields

Other Fields

• Cartography:
  • Heritage Map Museum Home Page -- Large general collection of maps from the 15th through 19th centuries.
• Cookery:
  • 18th Century Wine Recipes (Ralph Roberts) -- Recipes for mum, stephony, mead, &c.
• Economics:
  • The History of Economic Thought (McMaster) -- An excellent and extensive collection of texts from the history of economics.
  • Bibliothèque virtuelle du Centre d'Histoire de la Pensée Economique (France) -- Dozens of E-texts from various sources. The site itself is in French; the texts are in various languages. Requires frames.
  • Economic History (Paulette Taieb, Univ. de Paris) -- Biographical and bibliographical information and some texts on 18th-c. economic history, including works by d'Alembert, Arbuthnot, Cantillon, Condillac, Condorcet, Lavoisier, Locke, Malthus, Newton, Quesnay, Rousseau, Smith, and Turgot. Mostly in French. Oversophistication in the HTML and Java coding sometimes makes navigation difficult.
  • EH.R: Forum: Re-thinking 18th Century China -- Archive of a discussion group on 18th-c. Chinese economic history. Technical and specialized.
• Genealogy:
  • Eighteenth-Century Census Returns (Trinity College Dublin) -- Includes information on Irish genealogy.
• Miscellaneous:
  • 18th Century Bibliographies (Children's Books, Clothing, Cooking, Embroidery, Entertainment, Forts, French...) (UVM)
  • Biographies of Edinburghers:
    • Robert Adam
    • James Boswell
    • Robert Fergusson
    • David Hume
    • Allan Ramsay the Younger
    • Adam Smith