Great Lives from History: The 18th century, 1701-1800 [1] 1587652765, 9781587652769

Table of contents :
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Contributors
Key to Pronunciation
Complete List of Contents
List of Maps and Sidebars
Maps of the Eighteenth Century
Dictionary
Fanny Abington
Robert and James Adam
Abigail Adams
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Joseph Addison
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Ahmed III
Alaungpaya
Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Ethan Allen
Lord Amherst
John André
Queen Anne
Lord Anson
Second Duke of Argyll
Sir Richard Arkwright
Benedict Arnold
Francis Asbury
Mary Astell
Bacal Shem Tov
Johann Sebastian Bach
Isaac Backus
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Sir Joseph Banks
Benjamin Banneker
Anna Barbauld
Johann Bernhard Basedow
John Baskerville
Hester Bateman
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Cesare Beccaria
Benedict XIV
Jeremy Bentham
Vitus Jonassen Bering
George Berkeley
Joseph Black
Sir William Blackstone
William Blake
William Bligh
Luigi Boccherini
Germain Boffrand
First Viscount Bolingbroke
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval
Daniel Boone
James Boswell
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Joseph Boulogne
Matthew Boulton
Joseph Brant
James Brindley
Lancelot Brown
James Bruce
Comte de Buffon
Edmund Burke
Charles Burney
Fanny Burney
RobertBums
Joseph Butler
Canaletto
CaoXueqin
Sir Guy Carleton
Lazare Carnot
Caroline
Charles Carroll
Casanova
Catherine the Great
Georgiana Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
Hester Chapone
Jean-Siméon Chardin
Charles III
Charles VI
Charles XII
Queen Charlotte
Samuel Chase
Marquise du Châtelet
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Étienne François de Choiseul
Chong Son
Sarah Churchill
George Rogers Clark
Sir Henry Clinton
Robert Clive
Étienne Bonnot de Condillae
Marquis de Condorcet
James Cook
John Singleton Copley
First Marquess Cornwallis
François Couperin
Hannah Cowley
Dai Zhen
Georges Danton
Abraham Darby
Jean Dauberval
Daniel Defoe
Aagje Deken
John Dickinson
Denis Diderot
Joseph-François Dupleix
Jonathan Edwards
Elijah ben Solomon
Elizabeth Petrovna
Olaudah Equiano
First Baron Erskine
Eugene of Savoy
Leonhard Euler
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Adam Ferguson
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Henry Fielding
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
John Fitch
Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Maria Anne Fitzherbert
André-Hercule de Fleury
Charles James Fox
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Benjamin Franklin
Frederick I
Frederick the Great
Frederick William 1
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gainsborough
Luigi Galvani
José de Galvez
David Garrick
George I
George II
George III
Elbridge Gerry
Edward Gibbon
Christoph Gluck
First Earl of Godolphin
William Godwin
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oliver Goldsmith
Francisco de Goya
Henry Grattan
Nathanael Greene
Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
Hakuin
Alexander Hamilton
John Hancock
George Frideric Handel
James Hargreaves
Warren Hastings
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Joseph Haydn
Claude-Adrien Helvétius
Patrick Henry
Johann Gottfried Herder
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
William Herschel
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
William Hogarth
Paul-Henri-Dietrich d’Holbach
Honda Toshiaki
Richard Howe
William Howe
David Hume
Thomas Hutchinson
Hyder Ali
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson
Edward Jenner
Samuel Johnson
John Paul Jones
Joseph II
Immanuel Kant
Karim Khân Zand
Angelica Kauffmann
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
John Kay
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Ignacy Krasicki
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Sophie von La Roche
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Thomas Lawrence
Nicolas Leblanc
Ann Lee
Charlotte Lennox
Alain-René Lesage
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Levni
Carolus Linnaeus
Antonio Francisco Lisboa
Little Turtle