Challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state cast a shadow on the development of civil society and sheds light on a little-known historical re

Prussian discipline is legendary. Central to debates about modern German history is the view that an oppressive Prussian state cast a shadow on the development

An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world.

A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia', part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793.

The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history Few figures loom as la