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C. B. A. Behrens (1904–1989) was a British historian of Europe. She was the author of The Ancien Régime and Society, Government and the Enlightenment.
How Did the Germans Do It?
The Age of German Liberation, 1795-1815
by Friedrich Meinecke, edited with an introduction by Peter Paret, translated by Peter Paret and Helmuth Fischer
Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
by Steven L. Kaplan
May 4, 1978 issue
Porn, Propaganda, and the Enlightenment
The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe
by Robert Darnton and Bernhard Fabian and Roy McKeen Wiles, edited by Paul J. Korshin
Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Curés in the Diocese of Dauphiné, 1750-1791
by Timothy Tackett
Lafayette: A Biography
by Peter Buckman
September 29, 1977 issue
The Ideal Grand Bourgeois
Les Idées de Necker
by Henri Grange
Necker
by Jean Egret
March 3, 1977 issue
Opening Up the Ruling Class
L'Ancien Régime Vol. 2: Les Pouvoirs
by Pierre Goubert
February 21, 1974 issue
Counter Revolutionaries
The Counter-Revolution, Doctrine and Action, 1789-1804
by Jacques Godechot, translated by Salvator Attanasio
Power, Property and History
by Joseph Barnave, translated and edited by Emanuel Chill
History in Geographic Perspective: The Other France
by E.W. Fox
January 27, 1972 issue
Revolution à la Mode
La Révolution Française: Mythes et Interprétations 1789-1970
by Alice Gérard
The World of the French Revolution
by R. R. Palmer
June 3, 1971 issue
Making the Revolution
The French Revolution
by François Furet and Denis Richet, translated by Stephen Hardman
A Second Identity
by Richard Cobb
The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820
by Richard Cobb
March 25, 1971 issue
The Coming of Capitalism
From Calvin to Rousseau
by Herbert Lüthy, translated by Salvator Attanasio
December 3, 1970 issue
Looking for Louis
Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen
by Pierre Goubert, translated by Anne Carter
The Age of Louis XIV
by Pierre Gaxotte, translated by Michael Shaw
The Affair of the Poisons
by Frances Mossiker
July 23, 1970 issue
Looking for the Ancien Régime
Paris in the Age of Absolutism
by Orest Ranum
French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase 1620-1629
by A.D. Lublinskaya, translated by Brian Pearce, with a Foreword by J.H. Elliott
L'Ancien Régime Vol. 1, La Société
by Pierre Goubert
January 1, 1970 issue
Shadows on the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation Volume II: The Science of Freedom
by Peter Gay
December 18, 1969 issue
Tolerating the Terror
Artisans and Sans-Culottes
by Gwynn A. Williams
Les Sans-Culottes
by Albert Soboul
May 8, 1969 issue
Spirit of the Terror
La 1ère République
by Albert Soboul
Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française
English Historians on the French Revolution
by Hedva Ben-Israel
February 27, 1969 issue
The Price Of Revolution
The Two French Revolutions, 1789-1796
by Guglielmo Ferrero, Translated from the French by Samuel J. Hurwitz, with a Foreword by Crane Brinton
Louis XIV
by John B. Wolf
June 20, 1968 issue
The Great Society
The Sun King
by Nancy Mitford
At the Court of Versailles
by Gilette Ziegler
October 6, 1966 issue
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