This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as ''modern'' began to take shape.Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines:

This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.

This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as ''modern'' began to take shape.Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines:

This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.

Richelieu and Mazarin by Geoffrey Treasure compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. It explores all aspects of the two men''s careers including the historical background, their personal characters, aims and values and their experience of power. Geoffrey Treasure also debates altered perceptions of ''absolutism'' and the accomplishments of both leaders.

Richelieu and Mazarin by Geoffrey Treasure compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. It explores all aspects of the two men''s careers including the historical background, their personal characters, aims and values and their experience of power. Geoffrey Treasure also debates altered perceptions of ''absolutism'' and the accomplishments of both leaders.

This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as ''modern'' began to take shape.Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines:

This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.

This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as ''modern'' began to take shape.Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines:

This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.

Richelieu and Mazarin by Geoffrey Treasure compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. It explores all aspects of the two men''s careers including the historical background, their personal characters, aims and values and their experience of power. Geoffrey Treasure also debates altered perceptions of ''absolutism'' and the accomplishments of both leaders.

Richelieu and Mazarin by Geoffrey Treasure compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. It explores all aspects of the two men''s careers including the historical background, their personal characters, aims and values and their experience of power. Geoffrey Treasure also debates altered perceptions of ''absolutism'' and the accomplishments of both leaders.