The 16th and 17th centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military change as a central part of

There is a common belief that the system of sovereign territorial states and the roots of liberal democracy are unique to European civilization and alien to non

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformati

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"A tour de force." - Vladimir Steffel, Ohio State University