A Companion to Eighteenth‐Century Europe

How the study of history has changed in the past half‐century! I thought I knew all about eighteenth‐century Europe. We did it at school: Queen Anne, and the Hanoverian succession. The Battle of Blenheim (Britain won the war but lost the peace). An interlocking series of other minor wars, ranging from Jenkin's Ear to the Spanish Succession, the Austrian Succession, American Independence, and the Cruel Wars in High Germany. Bonnie Prince Charlie. The cultural dominance of the French monarchy at Versailles. Literature – Rousseau and Voltaire, Pope, Swift and then Doctor Johnson. The Agricultural Revolution, and then the Industrial Revolution....