The global eighteenth century

Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a "long eighteenth century," one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830.

Felicity A. Nussbaum and the contributors to this volume take this idea one step further, positing an eighteenth century that is "wide" as well as long, reaching beyond Europe into the African diaspora, the Americas, the Levant, China, India, and Oceania.

This collection of essays adds a crucial historical element to the emerging concept of the global.