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Review Article : Ancien Regime and Enlightenment. Some Recent Writing on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe Review Article Jeremy Black Roger Bartlett and Janet M. Hartley,eds,Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Essays for Isabel de Madariaga,London,Macmillan,1990;x + 253 pp.;£45.00. Otto Büsch and Monika Neugebauer-Wölk,eds,Preussen und die Revo lutionäre Herausforderung seit 1789. Ergebnisse einer Konferenz,Berlin and New York,Walter de Gruyter,1991;xv + 371 pp.;DM 168,-. Heinz Duchhardt,Altes Reich und europäische Staatenwelt 1648-1806,Munich,Oldenbourg,1990;viii + 125 pp.;DM 64,- hardback,DM 28,paperback. Lindsey Hughes,Sophia,Regent of Russia 1657-1704,New Haven and London,Yale University Press,1990;xvii + 345 pp.;£19.95. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova,eds,The Enlightenment and its Shadows,London,Routledge,1990;viii + 232 pp.;£35.00. Bernhard R. Kroener,ed.,Europa im Zeitalter Friedrichs des Grossen: Wirtschaft,Gesellschaft,Kriege,Munich,Oldenbourg,1989;316 pp.;DM 48,-. Jerzy Lukowski,Liberty's Folly. The Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century,London,Routledge,1991;xx + 316 pp.;£40.00. Peter Nitschke,Verbrechensbekämpfung und Verwaltung. Die Entstehung der Polizei in der Grafschaft Lippe (1700-1814),Münster,Waxman,1990;222 pp.;DM 49,90. Robert A. Schneider,Public Life in Toulouse,1463-1789. From Munici pal Republic to Cosmopolitan City,Ithaca,Cornell University Press,1990;xiii + 395 pp.;US $49.95. H. M. Scott,ed.,Enlightened Absolutism. Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe,London,Macmillan,1990;x + 385 pp.;£35.00. Franco Venturi,The End of the Old Regime in Europe,1776-1789: Vol. I: The Great States of the West,Vol. II: Republican Patriotism and the Empires of the East,translated by R. Burr Litchfield;Princeton,Prince ton University Press,1991;xiv + 1044 pp.;US $75.00 together,or I: $42.50,II: $39.95

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