Editor in Chief: Alan Charles Kors, Professor History, University of Pennsylvania

Area Editors:
Roger L. Emerson, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, Department of History, UCLA
Anthony J. LaVopa, Professor and Department Head, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Jacque Le Brun, former Directeur d'Etudes des Sciences Religieuses, Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne
Jeremy D. Popkin, Professor of History, University of Kentucky
Ruth Whelan, Professor and Head of Department of French, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University

Adviser: Bradley Thompson, Associate Professor and Chariman, Department of History and Political Science, Ashland University

*Booklist Editors' Choice, 2003
*Library Journal Best Reference Source, 2003
*Choice Outstanding Academic Title
*2004 Library Journal Starred Review
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004

"The most comprehensive resource available about the era that transformed Western Civilization."--Historical Media Review

"An excellent choice for students."--School Library Journal

"The definitive reference source for this enormously important epoch."--American Reference

"Extremely well timed."--Boston Globe

"A valuable guide to the period."--History Magazine

"Highly Recommended."--CHOICE

"This new work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage available....Impressive range and currency."--Library Journal [Starred Review]

"The most comprehensive resource available about the era that transformed Western Civilization."--Historical Media Review

"One of the most ambitious and important reference works to be published in recent years."--Reason

"This new work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage available....Impressive range and currency."--Library Journal [Starred Review]