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Peter the Great
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 55.00A new narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. more...
Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 46.00Uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. more...
Early Modern Europe
Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history. Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period. Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies;... more...
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 63.00This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition in the early nineteenth century. The author argues that political struggle was not confined to the elite, and that the Restoration Liberal Opposition developed a reform tradition which was far more effective than the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and insurrection. more...
Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00Many studies of the subject of 'Catholic identity' seek to credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany 'from above'. In contrast, this study argues that there were important and specific local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics. more...
Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 53.00This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. It sheds new light on the government of Louis XIV, the history of Burgundy and the wider political history of eighteenth-century France. more...
From Reich to State
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 55.00From Reich to State is based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, locating the Napoleonic episode in this region within a broader chronological framework, encompassing the Old Regime and Restoration. It analyses not only politics, but also culture, identity, religion, society, institutions and economics. more...
Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 53.00This is the first 'comparative micro-historical' study to have been attempted for the period between the old and the new France, 1760-1820, which offers a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change. more...
The Russian Roots of Nazism
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 40.00This book analyzes the political, financial, military, and ideological contributions of many 'White émigrés', anti-Bolshevik Russian exiles, to Nazism. It demonstrates that Nazism did not develop as a peculiarly German phenomenon and examines Aufbau (Reconstruction), a far right German-White émigré organization which collaborated with Nazis from 1920-1923. more...
The French Second Empire
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 53.00This is the most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire in any language. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernisation' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens. more...









