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.
'A second edition of a most useful collection...The reappearance of these volumes is very welcome...' - Jeremy Black, History, The Journal of the Historical Association
Reviews of the First Edition:
'An ambitious study of a large and very diverse subject...It will remain for the forseeable future the best survey of its subject in English.' - M.S.Anderson, English Historical Review (1995)
'Nobody edits books better than Hamish Scott' - Charles Ingrao, Central European History (1996)
Reviews of the First Edition:
'An ambitious study of a large and very diverse subject...It will remain for the forseeable future the best survey of its subject in English.' - M.S.Anderson, English Historical Review (1995)
'Nobody edits books better than Hamish Scott' - Charles Ingrao, Central European History (1996)