Europe

Geoffrey Parker examines the historiography of the Thirty Years' War.

John Cohen muses on the significance of death in literature and politics throughout history.

Polymnia Athanassiadi-Fowden

Catherine the Great wrote of Sophia Alekseevna, the first woman to effectively rule Russia, '... we cannot but own, that she was very capable of governing.'An article by Lindsey A.J. Hughes

Alain Croix

Revolution and Red Tape by Clive H. Church

Douglas Porch

Roy Porter on the European concept of Enlightenment.

This month History Today publishes the first in a new regular series of bibliographical essays on a wide variety of historiographical topics. The idea of the series is to survey the subject and to provide a guide to the most important and most recent books about it. In the first of the series, Douglas Johnson looks at the French Revolution.

Edited by Geoffrey Barraclough