...core of a world-wide 'empire', with research into the development of public education in Britain at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and so forth. These and many other avenues of investigation will entail micro-level and macro-level study...

...that the Ottomans experienced in maintaining their hold on the island during these tumultuous years at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries and shows that the Ottoman predicament was similar in important ways to Venice's predicament during its...

...impetus in the context of arguments over one or other culture's superiority which had flared up at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries (and it is significant, for example, that Martello's Dialogo is supposed to take place partly during a journey...

...chapters, I suggested that there was a significant increase in the number of fluent silent readers at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and that this increase led to important changes in prose style and genre because fluent silent reading...