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A study of Scottish thinkers and writers in their political and cultural context. The ‘advancement of learning’ was the term used by late seventeenth-century Scots for intellectual enquiry of all kin …

Showcases the latest research on Scotland’s rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened …

The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Pow …

In 1685, the revocation of the Edict of Nantes made Catholicism the only recognized religion in France and criminalized the practice of Calvinism, throwing the minority Protestant population into cri …

Do you ever feel like you don’t know how to be a great leader? In Sheunesu E Kasiamhuru’s leadership book The Art of Decisiveness, we are taken on a blast to the past to learn key skills from the Age …

A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing. This book recounts Puritan struggles for military dominance and for an authoritat …

Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary’s government steadily dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The state’s co …

Austria has long been considered a European success story: a land-locked country on the losing side of World War Two, which emerged from ten years of post-war occupation as one of the EU’s richest m …

This ambitious and important book is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern ‘secret state’ and its agencies, spies, informers and intelligencers, under the English …

Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial E …