18th century

The adventures of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Provides an overview of the relationship between the United States and China dating back to the nineteenth century, featuring anecdotes and vignettes that discuss pirates, drug runners, slave traders, and other intriguing historical figures.

Examines the causes and effects of the uprisings in France in the late eighteenth century, and discusses why various groups were so opposed to the leadership of King Louis XVI.

An illustrated history of Georgian Britain, covering the years between 1688 and 1793, and exploring the topics of economics, commerce, society, towns, religion, culture and the arts, politics, government, Enlightenment and science, and disease and death.

A collection of original documents, letters, diaries, and proclamations which give contemporary commentary on social, political and cultural events in England between 1584 and 1778.

A biography of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, that focuses on his childhood on the Caribbean Islands, dreaming of attending college in the American Colonies.

Sold into slavery by his uncle, Davie Balfour is pressed into service as cabin boy to the drunken captain who kidnapped him and sees no way out of his predicament until Alan Breck Stewart, an exiled Jacobite, comes aboard.