The War of the Spanish Succession
New Perspectives
Edited by Matthias Pohlig and Michael Schaich
OUP/GHIL
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Edited by Matthias Pohlig, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Münster, and Michael Schaich, Deputy Director, German Historical Institute London
Matthias Pohlig is Professor of Early Modern History at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster. His publications include the monograph Zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und konfessioneller Identitätsstiftung: Lutherische Kirchen- und Universalgeschichtsschreibung 1546-1617 (2007) and several volumes of collected essays on early modern historiography, religious history, and questions of historical theory. His book about information gathering during the War of the Spanish Succession, Marlboroughs Geheimnis: Strukturen und Funktionen der Informationsgewinnung im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg, was published in 2016.
Michael Schaich is the deputy director of the German Historical Institute London. He specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and German history. Among his publications are Staat und Öffentlichkeit im Kurfürstentum Bayern der Spätaufklärung (2001) and as editor (with R. J. W. Evans and Peter H. Wilson) The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 (2011) and (with Andreas Gestrich) The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (2015). His current research focuses on the symbolic representation of the British monarchy and state under the Stuarts and Hanoverians.
Contributors:
Leopold Auer, Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna
Susanne Friedrich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Marian Füssel, University of Göttingen
Aaron Graham, University College London
Guillaume Hanotin, University of Bordeaux Montaigne
John B. Hattendorf, US Naval War College
Mark Hengerer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Leonhard Horowski, University of Münster
Aaron A. Olivas, Texas A & M International University
William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent
Matthias Pohlig, University of Münster
Guy Rowlands, University of St Andrews
José Manuel Santos Pérez, University of Salamanca
Michael Schaich, German Historical Institute London
Hamish Scott, University of St Andrews
Christopher Storrs, University of Dundee
Hiillard von Thiessen, University of Rostock
Andrew C. Thompson, University of Cambridge
Peter H. Wilson, University of Oxford