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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

The American Revolution. The French Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. The Eighteenth Century saw what many scholars believe to be the three most significant events in world history. The most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken, Eighteenth Century Collections Onlinevividly brings this period to life with materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements.

• Part I contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)
• Part II contains nearly 50,000 new titles of previously unavailable or inaccessible materials
• Full-text search capabilities
• Well-known and lesser-known authors
• Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles"