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"1740)" as a book category denotes works—fiction and nonfiction—centered on the world around the year 1740 and the mid-18th century more broadly. It signals settings shaped by the Enlightenment and scientific inquiry, expanding global empires and commerce (including Atlantic colonialism and the slave trade), and the military and political upheavals of the era such as the War of the Austrian Succession and the Jacobite rising. Typical entries emphasize period detail—naval voyages, courtly life, coffeehouses and salons, legal and class hierarchies, and early industrial and agricultural change—and range from rigorous social or intellectual histories and biographies to historical novels, naval/military adventures, travelogues, and speculative or alternate-history takes rooted in that milieu. Readers can expect language, costumes, technologies, and moral frameworks anchored to early modern Europe and its global connections, with attention to the cultural and ethical tensions of a world on the cusp of modernity.

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