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"A preoccupation on the part of historians with European expansion across the Atlantic between 1500 and 1800 has to some extent obscured the continued importance…"
"Rochford was an interesting individual. He was a musician who loved the theatre and counted the actor David Garrick and the playwright Beaumarchais…"
"Like Holland, Flanders was one of a group of provinces, those of the southern Netherlands where the revolt against Habsburg misrule had started…"
"English society in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries experienced intense social change. The national population was increasing rapidly: from…"
"By the beginning of 1689, James II and VII and his queen, Mary of Modena, had fled to France where Louis XIV put at their disposal the castle of…"
"The history of British-Ottoman relations between 1713 and 1779 is therefore one of commerce and diplomacy intertwined, with foreign policy aims…"
During the seventeenth century Portugal had faced severe challenges. Much of its eastern empire had been lost and, although independence from Spain had been declared in 1640, a prolonged war had followed that only finally came to an end in 1668.
"The general direction of Anglo-Russian relations was one of animosity to alliance and back to animosity. As such, there are parallels with relations between…"
Ireland underwent a profound transformation in the sixteenth century. In 1500 Ireland, nominally a possession of the Tudors, was largely autonomous; by 1603 that autonomy had been broken. The manner in which this change unfolded could not have been foreseen a hundred years earlier.
"The public's ability to engage with political and religious issues, and with current affairs, had always been highly controversial, not least to the extent that…"
An essay on Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735), who was one of the most well-connected young ladies in Europe at this time.
Spain's eighteenth century can be divided into two halves. The first half comprises the reigns of the first Spanish Bourbon, Philip V, the designated successor of the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II and of Philip's son, Luis I, who succeeded to the throne following Philip's abdication in 1724.
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