One of the book's strengths is that it highlights modern scholarship of the period, on which these essays are based. This study will be of greatest interest to specialists and graduate students. Summing Up: Recommended.

CHOICE

This is an excellent collection, and the editors deserve praise ... One of the great pluses of the collection is its scope: the way it integrates European states and regions that have so often been left out of books too narrowly focused on France and, perhaps, Italy and Spain ... These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth-century Europe.

Journal of European Studies

In short, the editors have admirably engaged with the Restorations ... In sum, there is much promise to A History of the European Restorations, and its impressive cast of contributors have made important interventions.

European History Quarterly

This is a magnificent and exciting collection, bringing together a remarkable international range of scholars who cover both well-established topics from unfamiliar angles, and introduce areas on which there is little available in English. Any respectable historical library will need a copy: it will be widely consulted for years.

Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bristol

This impressive collection will assume its place as an important survey of current thinking on the politics of the Restoration era in both international and domestic contexts. Scholars and students alike will consult the essays with profit. The contributors provide new and nuanced assessments of actors and policies rather than recurring to older dichotomies of radical and reactionary. Some contributions trace themes for specific regions across the whole period, others focus on specific episodes and explore the broader implications through close readings. Having both types of essays adds to the insights of the volume.

Brian Vick, Emory University, author of The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon

These two volumes provide a valuable introduction to the exciting new research which is transforming our view of Europe between 1815 and 1848. Unified by the important and persuasive notion of multiple “Restorations”, they will be invaluable for anyone who teaches or studies this important period in European history.

Professor Hamish Scott, Jesus College, Oxford