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Book SynopsisFeatures writings that reflect the author's research and thinking on politics, art, culture, and ideas in Europe and the colonial worlds between 1500 and 1800. This volume includes a lecture in honour of the late Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Trade Review"Not only an excellent summation of the major historiographical positions but also an insider's look at the academic origins of the original debate in the pages of
Past and Present. . . . Throughout these essays, Elliott seeks explanations in constitutional and political arrangements but also in the vagaries and contingencies of time and place. It is his ability to balance structural, conjunctural, and individual elements that gives these essays their freshness. . . . These essays also demonstrate that careful scholarship, elegant prose, and a disciplined historical imagination can, whatever the national origins of the author, always illumine and provoke, which is exactly the objective accomplished here."—Stuart B. Schwartz,
Journal of Modern History -- Stuart B. Schwartz * Journal of Modern History *
"Scholars, students, history aficionados, and even policymakers will find that Elliott offers valuable insights on the early modern world that speak to our own as well."--Roger Louis Martínez,
The Americas -- Roger Louis Martínez * The Americas *
