Description

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Essays with national approaches provide unique coverage of Europe's Old Regime nobilities, from Britain to Russia and from Sweden to Portugal, framed by a substantial comparative editorial introduction and concluded by a survey of the fate of the nobilities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

About the Author

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KNUD J.V. JESPERSEN Professor of Modern History at Odense University, Denmark R.J.W. EVANS Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, UK ROBERT I. FROST Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK ISABEL DE MADARIAGA Professor Emerita of Russian Studies in the University of London, UK EDGAR MELTON Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, USA JAMES VAN HORN MELTON Professor of History at Emory University, USA PETER SCHIMERT PhD Graduate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and Lecturer, McDaniel College, Budapest, Hungary A.F. UPTON Professor Emeritus of Nordic History at the University of St Andrews, UK PETER H. WILSON Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sunderland, UK.