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Great Lives from History: The 18th Century

Great Lives from History: The 18th Century
Table of Contents

Publisher's Note
Contributors
Key to Pronunciation
Complete List of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Sidebars
Maps of the Eighteenth Century World

Abd al-Wahhab
Abington, Frances
Adam, Robert, and James Adam
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Addison, Joseph
Agnesi, Maria
Ahmed III
Alaungpaya
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Allen, Ethan
Amherst, Lord
André, John
Anne, Queen
Anson, Lord
Arkwright, Richard
Arnold, Benedict
Asbury, Francis
Astell, Mary
Ba`al Shem Tov
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Backus, Isaac
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
Banks, Sir Joseph
Banneker, Benjamin
Barbauld, Anna
Basedow, Johann Bernhard
Baskerville, John
Bateman, Hester
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Beccaria, Cesar
Benedict XIV
Bentham, Jeremy
Bering, Vitus Jonassen
Berkeley, George
Black, Joseph
Blackstone, William
Blake, William
Bligh, William
Boccherini, Luigi
Boffrand, Germain
Bolingbroke, First Viscount
Bonneval, Comte de
Boone, Daniel
Boswell, James
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Boulogne, Joseph
Boulton, Matthew
Brant, Joseph
Brindley, James
Brown, Lancelot
Bruce, James
Buffon, Comte de
Burke, Edmund
Burney, Charles
Burney, Fanny
Burns, Robert
Butler, Joseph
Campbell, John, Second Duke of Argyll
Canaletto
Cao Xueqin
Carleton, Guy
Carnot, Lazare
Caroline of Ansbach
Carroll, Charles
Carvalho e Mello, Sebastão José de
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
Catherine the Great
Cavendish, Georgiana
Cavendish, Henry
Chapone, Hester
Chardin, Jean Siméon
Charles III
Charles VI
Charles XII
Charlotte Sophia
Chase, Samuel
Chatelet, Gabrielle Émilie du
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Choiseul, Étienne-François d'
Churchill, Sarah Jennings
Clark, George Rogers
Clinton, Henry
Clive, Robert
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de
Condorcet, Marquis de
Cook, Captain James
Copley, John Singleton
Cornwallis, First Marquess
Couperin, François
Cowley, Hannah
Dai Zhen
Danton, Georges
Darby, Abraham
Dauberval, Jean
Defoe, Daniel
Dickinson, John
Diderot, Denis
Dupleix, Joseph François, Marquis de
Edwards, Jonathan
Elijah ben Solomon
Elizabeth Petrovna
Equiano, Oloudah
Erskine, First Baron
Eugen, Prince of Savoy-Carignon
Euler, Leonhard
Fahrenheit, Daniel
Ferguson, Adam
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Fielding, Henry
Fischer von Erlach, Johann
Fitch, John
FitzGerald, Edward
Fitzherbert, Maria
Fleury, André-Hercule de
Fox, Charles James
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick I
Frederick the Great
Frederick William I
Gage, Thomas
Gainsborough, Thomas
Galvani, Luigi
Gálvez, José
Garrick, David
George I
George II
George III
Gerry, Elbridge
Gibbon, Edward
Gluck, Christoph
Godolphin, First Earl of
Godwin, William
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goya, Francisco de
Grattan, Henry
Greene, Nathanael
Haidar Ali
Hakuin
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
Handel, George Frideric
Hargreaves, James
Hastings, Warren
Hawksmoor, Nicholas
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Helvetius, Claude
Henry, Patrick
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Herschel, Caroline
Herschel, William
Hildebrandt, Johann Lucas von
Hogarth, William
Holbach, Paul Henri
Honda Toshiaki
Howe, Admiral Richard
Howe, General William
Hume, David
Hutchinson, Thomas
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenner, Edward
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, John Paul
Joseph II
Kamehameha I
Kant, Immanuel
Karim Khan Zand
Kauffmann, Angelica
Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton von
Kay, John
Klopstock, Friedrich
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz
Krasicki, Ignatius
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
LaRoche, Sophie
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
Leblanc, Nicolas
Lee, Ann
Lennox, Charlotte
Lesage, Alain-René
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Levni, Ressam
Linnaeus
Lisboa, Antonio Francisco
Little Turtle
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Macaulay, Catherine
Macdonald, Flora
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
Maclaurin, Colin
Madison, James
Mahmud I
Manley, Mary de la Rivière
Mansfield, First Earl of
Marat, Jean-Paul
Maria Theresa
Marie-Antoinette
Marlborough, First Duke of
Mason, George
Mather, Cotton
Mather, Increase
McGillivray, Alexander
Mendelssohn, Moses
Menetewab
Mirabeau, Comte de
Monge, Gaspard
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Montalembert, Marc Rene, Marquis de
Montcalm, Louis Joseph Marquis de
Montesquieu
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel
More, Hannah
Morris, Gouverneur
Morris, Robert
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Murdock, William
Mustafa III
Nadir Khan
Nanny
Necker, Jacques
Newbery, John
Newcomen, Thomas
Nguyen Hue
North, Lord
Oglethorpe, James Edward
Ogyu Sorai
Oldfield, Anne
Orléans, Duc d'
Orlov, Count Aleksei
Orlov, Count Grigori
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Park, Mungo
Peale, Charles Willson
Pelham, Henry
Pestalozzi, Johann
Peter III
Peter the Great
Philip V
Phillip, Arthur
Pitt the Younger, William
Pitt the Elder, William
Pius VI
Poisson, Jeanne-Antoinette
Pontiac
Pope, Alexander
Potemkin, Grigori, Prince
Priestley, Joseph
Pugachov, Yemelyan
Qian Long
Quesnay, François
Radcliffe, Ann
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas
Revere, Paul
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Richardson, Samuel
Robespierre
Robinson, Mary Darby
Rochambeau, Comte de
Rodney, George
Roebuck, John
Romney, George
Ross, Betsy
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rush, Benjamin
Sade, Marquis de
Saint-Just, Louis de
Saxe, Hermann Maurice, comte de
Scarlatti, Alessandro
Schiller, Friedrich
Serra, Junipero
Sewall, Samuel
Seward, Anna
Shah Wali-Ullah
Sharp, Granville
Shays, Daniel
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sherman, Roger
Siddons, Sarah
Sidi al-Mukhtar Ibn Ahmad Ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti
Sieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph
Smith, Adam
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Staël, Madame de
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Stanhope, First Earl
Steele, Richard
Stradivari, Antonio
Stuart, Gilbert
Stukeley, William
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Suzuki, Harunobu
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Swift, Jonathan
Taksin
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Thanadelthur
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Tone, Theobald Wolfe
Toussaint-Louverture
Trumbull, John
Tull, Jethro
Tupac Amaru
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques
Vahid Bihbahani
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vancouver, George
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers de
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de
Vico, Giambattista
Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth
Vivaldi, Antonio
Volta, Alessandro
Voltaire
Walpole, Sir Robert
Wang Zhenyi
Warren, Mercy
Washington, George
Watt, James
Watteau, Antoine
Wayne, Anthony
Wedgwood, Josiah
Wesley, Charles
Wesley, John
West, Benjamin
Wheatley, Phillis
Whitefield, George
Whitney, Eli
Wilberforce, William
Wilkes, John
Wilkinson, John
Wilson, James
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Witherspoon, John
Woffington, Peg
Wolfe, James
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Yongzheng
Zenger, John Peter
Zinzendorf, Graf von

Rulers and Heads of State
Chronological List of Entries
Category Index
Geographical Index
Personages Index
Subject Index