This book contains essays within a common theme by a group of distinguished historians (some of t...

This second and final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II des...

The emperor Joseph II (1741-90) tried to carry through something like a 'revolution from above' i...

With the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Britain was again pre-eminent among the great po...

This second and final volume of Derek Beales's magisterial biography of the emperor Joseph II des...

In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of mon...