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• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  ...galegroup.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/itweb/sewa21847?db=ECCO ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]'''''
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• Accessible Archives
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states American] newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several important African American newspapers are
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• Aesthetics
  ...fine arts (Beaux-Arts) originated in all [[probability]] in the eighteenth century. ...recent [[origin]] and did not assume definite shape before the eighteenth century, although it has many ingredients that go back to classical, medieval, and
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• Bibliography of American Literature
  ...d, essentially the complete printed record of American literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• Modern Philosophy
  ...history of philosophy beginning from Descartes through the early twentieth century ending in Ludwig Wittgenstein. ...[[mind]], [[epistemology]], and [[metaphysics]] during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are roughly divided into two main groups. The "Rationalists," mos
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• Gourmet
  ...d, "mais s'il n'a pas bonne mine, il me semble mauvais". In the eighteenth century, gourmet and gourmand carried disreputable connotations of [[gluttony]], wh
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• Grammar
  ...contrasted with the grammatical [[analysis]] that began in the nineteenth century but came to fruition in the twentieth, which depends on [[linguistic]] [[re
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• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  ...galegroup.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/itweb/sewa21847?db=ECCO ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online]'''''
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• The Enlightenment
  ...in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which [[reason]] was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for ...ication), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectivel
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• Absolutism
  ...e [[influenced]] by [[the Enlightenment]] (eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe)
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• Topography
  ...ki/Ordnance_Survey Ordnance Surveys], and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps. The earliest [[scientific]] su In the 20th century, the term topography started to be used to describe [[surface]] description
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• Occident
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War] in the mid to late 20th Century. In the contemporary political and cultural context, the Western World gene ...stern European empires, and particularly the globe-spanning empires of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_D
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• Eroticism
  ...]". This theme of intrusion or transgression was taken up in the twentieth century by the French philosopher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille G
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• Electricity
  ...be until the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century] that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The
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• Public domain
  The term ''public domain'' did not come into use until the mid-17th century, although as a [[concept]] "it can be traced back to the [https://en.wikipe ...aw. The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet [https://en.w
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• Shepherd
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] .../wiki/Common_land common lands] in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century moved shepherding from independent [[nomads]] to employees of massive estat
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• Great Awakening
  ...ious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals ...the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially str
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• Childhood
  ...tones, furniture, and school records. He found that before the seventeenth century, children were represented as mini-adults. Since then historians have incre *Müller, Anja, ed. Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age and Identity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.
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• Cosmotheology
  '''Cosmotheology''' is to be distinguished from Derham's eighteenth-century [[astrotheology]] in that the main thrust of the former is not to offer pro ...the [[Milky Way galaxy]]. Although we have known this now for most of the century, and although it gives urgency to the religious questions (especially the [
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• Sacrilege
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...varied considerably. Most [[English]] dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries appealed to the primary sense of stealing objects from a [[church
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• Slavery
  ...in its modern form, for two hundred years. It appeared, in the eighteenth century, as universal and immutable as human nature. [5]</blockquote>
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