Cambridge Modern History. Volume 06, The Eighteenth Century
Author: last_name: Various
Language: English
Year: 1909

The present volume covers a section of time falling far short of that implied by the literal meaning of the word. But it seems hardly necessary to defend the use of the term “the Eighteenth Century,” as denoting a period of Modern History with characteristics peculiar to itself and exhibiting a more or less self-consistent development of its own. We have accordingly, without doing much violence to ordinary usage, restricted the application of the term to the years reaching from the Peace of Utre