The long 18thC is generally deemed to be from somewhere around the restoration of Charles II or (if you're being picky) the Glorious Revolution of 1688 AND Waterloo (1815) or, again if you're being picky, the social turmoil of 1848. Anglo-centric dates, I admit, but it works for England. Hard to tell about the US -- Henry Adams (b. 1838) wrote in his autobiography that he was born into the 18thC and within a decade found himself in the 20th (roughly cited, but someone picky will correct me). I sometimes think that in Canada the 18thC continued right up to 1960. Germaine
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