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First Imperial Ageby Geoffrey V. Scammell
Routledge 1989; US$ 42.95Taking an original, thematic approach, Geoffrey Scammell demonstrates the roots and ambiguity of Europe's triumphant rise to wealth and power. more...
The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europeby James Van Horn Melton; William Beik; T. C. W. Blanning
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 29.00In the New Approaches to European History series, this title provides an inter-disciplinary study of the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. James Melton's lucid and accessible account will be of interest to students of social and political history, literary studies, political theory, and the history of women. more...
Revolutionary Movements in World Historyby James DeFronzo
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 285.00In three volumes, this encyclopedia covers approximately 80 revolutions, from the American and French uprisings of the late 18th century to the fall of the Berlin wall. It combines portrayals of specific revolutions with essays on important overarching themes. It offers a way of looking at how societies reinvent themselves. more...
War, Society and Enlightenmentby Patrick J. Speelman
BRILL 2005; US$ 258.00This volume is the first compilation and only modern edition of General Lloyd's political, economic and historical treatises and military memoirs. As such it provides fresh insight into the study of war and society during the Age of the Enlightenment. more...
Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Centuryby Hamish Scott; Brendan Simms
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 30.00An analysis of the forces which shaped politics and culture in Germany, France and Great Britain in the eighteenth century. more...
Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815 [Two Volumes]by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 225.00Covered in this encyclopedia are the people, events, and ideas that shaped the transformative political ideologies arising from the American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century. more...
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europeby Peter H. Wilson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 204.95This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe more...
The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europeby Christopher Storrs
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95In recent decades, historians of early modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, elaborated the concept of what has been called the fiscal-military state. This volume of essays by leading authorities, all of whom have published widely on their chosen topic, explores the subject of the fiscal-military state by focusing on its leading exemplars in eighteenth-century Europe. In addition a further chapter considers the fiscal-military state in a broader, comparative international context, in the arena of international relations. The differing patterns, and the variety of models of fiscal-military state makes for ease of comparison across Europe. The volume will therefore be invaluable to both students and researchers... more...
European Warfare, 1350-1750by Frank Tallett; D. J. B. Trim
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 29.00Leading military historians illuminate the major developments in European warfare during a period of momentous technological, political and military change. more...
Decisive Battlesby Jonathon Riley
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 29.95What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Each battle included is a turning point, the outcome of which has changed the face of history. The battles at Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo in 1815 concluded more than twenty years of war with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and instituted alliances that dominated Europe until 1860. The Ardennes in 1944 was decisive because Hitler threw away the last army he had which could have stalled the Allied advance into Germany. The war ended less than five months later. Dien Bien Phu confirmed the collapse of French colonial power in... more...









