Product Description: To augment the many celebrations of the anniversary of European revolutions of the middle 19th century, historians from the continent, Britain, and the US follow the story to where, for many revolutionaries, it ended: in exile in London...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Studies on exile in the 19th century tend to be restricted to national histories. This volume is the first to offer a broader view by looking at French, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49...read more

Product Description: Anglo-German relations since the Second World War have been, in contrast to earlier periods of the twentieth century, generally warm and constructive. There have, however, also been periods of acute tension, showing that underlying sources of conflict remain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays traces the nineteenth-century origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society. With contributions from distinguished scholars, both American and European, the book offers a fresh approach to the study of international history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume compares British and German historiography from the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century. It examines the scope and impact of intellectual transfers and throws light on the power and influence of national traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays assembled here explore how private law historically helped to maintain, change, or upset inequalities common to all industrialized countries. The book deals with relations between lords and peasants, husbands and wives, masters and servants, landlords and tenants, and producers and consumers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These nine papers, by leading British, Irish and German scholars show how and why, in a crucial period of history, these countries preferred change that was gradual and consensual to radical and violent revolution. In the study of late eighteenth-century Europe the concept of reform, both in theory and in practice, has been neglected compared to the attention lavished on its more glamorous relation revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers a new approach to the history of the modern state. It concentrates on the eighteenth century and on the cases of Britain and Germany. By using a comparative study of these two states, including Prussia, it deconstructs certain clich�s about them and forces us to rethink how to study states in the early modern era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: British and German ambitions have clashed in the Pacific at many times in the last two centuries. This is a study of those episodes, and their effects on the European powers and the Pacific Islanders involved. It throws light on the activities of missionaries in Micronesia, head-hunters in New Guinea, Law-makers in Tonga and the influence of the British and Germans in the region...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first comprehensive account of the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884 and 1885, this book looks at the mixed motives behind the partition of Africa into colonial monopolies. Historians from both Africa and Europe interpret this unique moment in Euro-Africa relations, looking at the origins of the meeting, the priorities of negotiators, economic interests, missionary aspirations, and national rivalries...read more