Explores how workers in the local wine industry helped shape local politics and turn back Protestantism in early modern Burgundy.

Presents a fascinating account of the emotional politics and practices in the West German alternative left.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

The first comprehensive and accessible study of the critical constitutional debates in the Estates General and National Assembly of 1789 through which the National Assembly became a sovereign body. Robert H. Blackman uses diverse primary sources to create a compelling, narrative-driven account of events leading up to the French Revolution.

Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. It charts how anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding conceptions of democracy beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.

Debates around the 'woman question' originated in France in the late Middle Ages, and Karen Offen here offers a panoramic account of changing ideas of who women were and should be, and what they should be restrained from doing, from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century.