Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now attached to the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1. Political Thought ; 2. A Return to the Ancient World? ; 3. A Revolution in Natural Philosophy ; 4. Art and Architecture ; 5. Music ; 6. Europe's Enlightenment ; 7. Navigation and Discovery ; 8. Iberian Empires ; 9. Northern European Empires ; 10. The Role of the Religious Orders ; 11. Colonial Societies ; 12. Trade and the 'Global Economy' ; 13. The Unconquered East ; 14. Western European Monarchies ; 15. Northern and Eastern Monarchies ; 16. Authority and Popular Resistance ; 17. Rulers and Courts ; 18. Governance ; 19. Taxation and Finance ; 20. Republics and Republicanism ; 21. Warfare on Land ; 22. Warfare at Sea ; 23. The Ottoman Empire and Europe ; 24. Europe's Shifting Balance of Power, c.1450-1815 ; 25. The Growth of Diplomacy, c.1450-1815

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now attached to the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1. Political Thought ; 2. A Return to the Ancient World? ; 3. A Revolution in Natural Philosophy ; 4. Art and Architecture ; 5. Music ; 6. Europe's Enlightenment ; 7. Navigation and Discovery ; 8. Iberian Empires ; 9. Northern European Empires ; 10. The Role of the Religious Orders ; 11. Colonial Societies ; 12. Trade and the 'Global Economy' ; 13. The Unconquered East ; 14. Western European Monarchies ; 15. Northern and Eastern Monarchies ; 16. Authority and Popular Resistance ; 17. Rulers and Courts ; 18. Governance ; 19. Taxation and Finance ; 20. Republics and Republicanism ; 21. Warfare on Land ; 22. Warfare at Sea ; 23. The Ottoman Empire and Europe ; 24. Europe's Shifting Balance of Power, c.1450-1815 ; 25. The Growth of Diplomacy, c.1450-1815

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now attached to the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1. Political Thought ; 2. A Return to the Ancient World? ; 3. A Revolution in Natural Philosophy ; 4. Art and Architecture ; 5. Music ; 6. Europe's Enlightenment ; 7. Navigation and Discovery ; 8. Iberian Empires ; 9. Northern European Empires ; 10. The Role of the Religious Orders ; 11. Colonial Societies ; 12. Trade and the 'Global Economy' ; 13. The Unconquered East ; 14. Western European Monarchies ; 15. Northern and Eastern Monarchies ; 16. Authority and Popular Resistance ; 17. Rulers and Courts ; 18. Governance ; 19. Taxation and Finance ; 20. Republics and Republicanism ; 21. Warfare on Land ; 22. Warfare at Sea ; 23. The Ottoman Empire and Europe ; 24. Europe's Shifting Balance of Power, c.1450-1815 ; 25. The Growth of Diplomacy, c.1450-1815