BECK index

Europe 1648-1715

Bibliography

General and Miscellaneous
England, Scotland, and Ireland
France
Spain and Portugal
Italian City States
Austrian Empire, Germany and Switzerland
Netherlands
Scandinavia
Poland-Lithuania and Russia

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General and Miscellaneous

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England, Scotland, and Ireland

Addison, Joseph and Richard Steele & Others, The Spectator, Vol. 1. London, 1907.
Ashley, Maurice, Charles II: The Man and the Statesman. New York, 1971.
Ashley, Maurice, England in the Seventeenth Century. Middlesex, 1961.
Ashley, Maurice, Great Britain to 1688. Ann Arbor, 1961.
Ashley, Maurice, The Greatness of Oliver Cromwell. New York, 1962.
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Baxter, Stephen B., William III and the Defense of European Liberty 1650-1792. New York, 1966.
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works ed. Janet Todd. London, 1992.
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Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets ed. Hugh Maclean. New York, 1974.
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Berkeley, George, Works on Vision ed. Colin Murray Turbayne. Indianapolis, 1963.
Berkeley’s Philosophical Writings ed. David M. Armstrong. London, 1965.
Braddick, Michael, God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars. London, 2008.
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British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan ed. George H. Nettleton and Arthur E. Case. Boson, 1969.
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Bull, John, Vanbrugh & Farquhar. London, 1998.
Bunyan, John, Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies. Oxford, 1998.
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Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress ed. Cynthia Wall. New York, 2009.
Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come. Westwood, 1985.
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Charnock, Stephen, Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God, 2 volumes. Grand Rapids, 1853.
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Clare, Janet, Drama of the English Republic, 1649-60. Manchester, 2002.
Clark, George, The Later Stuarts 1660-1714. London, 1961.
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Congreve, William, (Complete Plays) ed. Alexander Charles Ewald. New York, 1956.
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Dryden, John, Volume II. London, 1950.
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English Levellers, The ed. Andrew Sharp. Cambridge, 1998.
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Frank, Joseph, The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn. Cambridge, 1955.
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Harris, Tim, The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685-1720. London, 2006.
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Keeble, N. H., The Restoration: England in the 1660s. Malden, 2002.
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Novak, Maximillian E., William Congreve. New York, 1971.
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Ogg, David, England in the Reigns of James II and William III. London, 1955.
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Patterson, Annabel, The Long Parliament of Charles II. New Haven, 2008.
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Zee, Henri and Barbara van der, William and Mary. London, 1973.

France

Abraham, Claude, Jean Racine. Boston, 1977.
Abraham, Claude, Pierre Corneille. New York, 1972.
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Bishop, Morris, Blaise Pascal. New York, 1966.
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Bluche, François, Louis XIV tr. Mark Greengrass. New York, 1990.
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Campbell, John, Questioning Racinian Tragedy. Chapel, 2005.
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Castries, Rene de La Croix, duc de, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of France. New York, 1979.
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Corneille, The Chief Plays of tr. Lacy Lockert. Princeton, 1957.
Corneille, Pierre, Polydeuctus, The Liar, Nicomedes tr. John Cairncross. Middlesex, 1980.
Corneille, Moot Plays of tr. Lacy Lockert. 1959.
Corneille, Pierre, Seven Plays tr. Samuel Solomon. New York, 1989.
Coste, Pierre, The Life & Works of Saint Vincent de Paul, Volume 3 tr. Joseph Leonard. Westminster, 1935.
Crowe, Eyre Evans, The History of France, Volume 2. London, 1860.
Davidson, Hugh M., Blaise Pascal. Boston, 1983.
Dunlop, Ian, Louis XIV. New York, 1999.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe, The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses tr. Tobias Smollett. Athens, 1997.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe, Christian Perfection. New York, 1947.
Fénelon on Education tr. H. C. Barnard. Cambridge, 1966.
Foigny, Gabriel de, The Southern Land, Known. Syracuse, 1993.
French Utopias: An Anthology of Ideal Societies tr. Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel. New York, 1966.
Giordani, Igino, St. Vincent de Paul: Servant of the Poor tr. Thomas J. Tobin. Milwaukee, 1961.
Goubert, Pierre, The Course of French History tr. Maarten Ultee. New York, 1988.
Gourney, Marie le Jars de, Apology for the Woman Writing and other works tr. Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel. Chicago, 2002.
Guérard. Albert, France: A Modern History. Ann Arbor, 1959.
Guérard. Albert, France in the Classical Age: The Life and Death of an Ideal. New York, 1956.
Guizot, M., History of France, Volume 4 tr. Robert Black. New York, 1900.
Goubert, Pierre, Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen tr. Anne Carter. New York, 1970.
Haig, Stirling, Madame de Lafayette. New York, 1970.
Howarth, W. D., Life and Letters in France: The Seventeenth Century. New York, 1965.
Hurt, John J., Louis XIV and the parlements: The assertion of royal authority. Manchester, 2002.
Impact of Absolutism in France: National Experience Under Richelieu, Mazarin, and Louis XIV, The ed. William F. Church. New York, 1969.
Kitchin, G. W., A History of France, Volume 2. Oxford, 1896, 1899.
Knox, Edward C., Jean de la Bruyere. New York, 1973.
La Bruyere, Jean de, Characters tr. Jean Stewart. Middlesex, 1970.
La Fontaine, Jean de, The Complete Fables tr. Norman R. Shapiro. Urbana, 2007.
La Fontaine, Selected Fables tr. James Michie. Middlesex, 1979.
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La Rochefoucauld, Maxims tr. Leonard Tancock. London, 1959.
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy, The Ancien Régime: A History of France 1610-1774. Oxford, 1996.
Lafeyette, Madame de, The Princess de Cleves tr. Nancy Mitford and Leonard Tancock. Middlesex, 1978.
Lawrence, Brother, The Practice of the Presence of God: Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine. Old Tappan, 1958.
Lewis, W. H., The Splendid Century: Life in the France of Louis XIV. Garden City, 1953.
Lossky, Andrew, Louis XIV and the French Monarchy. New Brunswick, 1994.
Louis XIV and Europe ed. Ragnhild Hatton. London, 1976.
Lynn, John A., The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714. London, 1999.
Malebranche, Nicolas, Treatise on Ethics (1684) tr. Craig Walton. Dordrecht, 1993.
Mallinson, G. J., The Comedies of Corneille: Experiments in the comic. Manchester, 1984.
Margitic, Milorad R., Cornelian Power Games: Variation on a Theme in Pierre Corneille’s Theatre from Mélite to Polyeucte. Gunter, 2002.
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Mitford, Nancy, The Sun King. New York, 1966.
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Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de, Five Plays tr. Richard Wilbur and Alan Drury. London, 1981.
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Molière, The Misathrope, Tartuffe and Other Plays tr. Maya Slater. Oxford, 2001.
Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de, The Misanthrope and Tartuffe tr. Richard Wilbur. New York, 1965.
Molière, The Miser and Other Plays tr. John Wood. Middlesex, 1953.
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Veiras, Denis, The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel tr. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori. Albany, 2006.
Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV, 2 volumes tr. William F. Fleming. Paris, 1901.
Walker, Hallam, Moliere. New York, 1971.
White, Julian Eugene Jr., Nicolas Boileau. New York, 1969.
Wilkinson, Richard, Louis XIV. London, 2007.
Wolf, John B., Louis XIV. New York, 1968.
Wyon, Olive, Teachings toward Christian Perfection introducing Three Spiritual Classics. New York, 1963.
Yarrow, P. J., Corneille. London, 1963.

Spain and Portugal

Atkinson, William C., A History of Spain and Portugal. Middlesex, 1960.
Davies, R. Trevor, Spain in Decline 1621-1700. London, 1957.
Elliott, J. H., Imperial Spain 1469-1716. London, 1963.
Elliott, J. H., Spain and Its World 1500-1700. New Haven, 1989.
Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James, A History of Spanish Literature. New York, 1925.
Fraser, Antonia, The Warrior Queens. New York, 1988.
Gerber, Jane S., The Jews of Spain A History of the Sephardic Experience. New York, 1992.
Griffiths, Major Arthur, In Spanish Prisons: The Inquisition at Home and Abroad, Prisons Past and Present. New York, 1991.
Guevara, Maria de, Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain tr. Nieves Romero-Diaz. Chicago, 2007
Historians’ History of the World, Volume 10: Spain and Portugal ed. Henry Smith Williams. London, 1926.
Hsia, R. Po-Chia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770. Cambridge, 2005.
Kamen, Henry, Philip V of Spain: The King who Reigned Twice. New Haven, 2001.
Kamen, Henry, Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1665-1700. London, 1980.
Kamen, Henry, The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision. London, 1997.
Kamen, Henry, The War of Succession in Spain 1700-15. Bloomington, 1969.
Livermore, H. V., A New History of Portugal. Cambridge, 1976.
Lynch, John, Bourbon Spain 1700-1808. Oxford, 1989.
Lynch, John, The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change 1598-1700. Oxford, 1992.
Marques, A. H. de Oliveira, History of Portugal, Volume 1: From Lusitania to Empire. New York, 1972.
Merriman, Roger Bigelow, The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New, Volume 2 The Catholic Kings. New York, 1918.
Newitt, Malyn, Portugal in European and World History. London, 2009.
Nowell, Charles E., A History of Portugal. New York, 1952.
Payne, Stanley G., A History of Spain and Portugal, Volume 1. Madison, 1973.
Smith, Bradley, Spain: A History in Art. Garden City, no date.
Smith, Rhea Marsh, Spain: A Modern History. Ann Arbor, 1965.
Stephens, H. Morse, The Story of Portugal. New York, 1891.
Stradling, R. A., Spain’s Struggle for Europe 1598-1668. London, 1994.
Stradling, R. A., Philip IV and the Government of Spain 1621-1665. Cambridge, 1988.

Italian City States

Collison-Morley, Lacy, Italy After the Renaissance: Decadence and Display in the Seventeenth Century. London, 1930.
Collison-Morley, Lacy, Naples Through the Centuries. New York, 1924.
Daniel-Ropps, H., The Church in the Seventeenth Century tr. J. J. Buckingham, Volume 1. Garden City, 1963.
Finley, M. I., et al, A History of Sicily. New York, 1986.
Hanlon, Gregory, The Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European Conflicts 1560-1800. New York, 1998.
Hibbert, Christopher, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall. New York, 1974.
Hibbert, Christopher, Venice: The Biography of a City. New York, 1989.
Historians’ History of the World, Volume 9: Italy ed Henry Smith Williams. London, 1926.
Hsia, R. Po-Chia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770. Cambridge, 2005.
Italy in the Baroque ed. & tr. Brendan Dooley. New York, 1995.
Montanelli, Indro and Robert Gervaso, Italy in the Golden Centuries. Chicago, 1967.
Muir, Edward, The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera. Cambridge, 2007.
Norwich, John Julius, A History of Venice. New York, 1982.
Oxford History of Italy, The ed. George Holmes. Oxford, 1997.
Pastor, Ludwig, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volumes 30-33. London, 1937-1941.
Procacci, Giuliano, History of the Italian People tr. Anthony Paul. London, 1970.
Ranke, Leopold von, History of the Popes: Their Church and State, Volume III tr. E. Fowler. New York, 1901.
Rich, the Well Born, and the Powerful, The: Elites and Upper Classes in History ed. Frederic Cople Jaher. Secaucus, 1973.
Sella, Domenico, Italy in the Seventeenth Century. London, 1997.
Smith, Denis Mack, A History of Sicily: Medieval Sicily 800-1713. New York, 1968.
Stone, Harold Samuel, Vico’s Cultural History: The Production and Transmission of Ideas in Naples 1685-1750. Leiden, 1997.
Vico, Giambattista, On Humanistic Education (Six Inaugural Orations, 1699-1707) tr. Giorgio A. Pinton and Arthur W. Shippee. Ithaca, 1993.
White, Andrew Dickson, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 volumes. New York, 1896.
Young, G. F., The Medici. New York, 1930.

Austrian Empire, Germany and Switzerland

Abbott, John S. C., Austria: Its Rise and Present Power. New York, 1882.
Antognazza, Maria Rosa, Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge, 2009.
Barraclough, Geoffrey, The Origins of Modern Germany. London, 1988.
Beller, Steven, A Concise History of Austria. Cambridge, 2006
Benecke, G., Society and Politics in Germany 1500-1750. London, 1974.
Bérenger, Jean, A History of the Hapsburg Empire 1273-1700 tr. C. A. Simpson. London, 1994.
Bonjour, E., H. S. Offler and G. R. Potter, A Short History of Switzerland. Oxford, 1952.
Bonjour, Edgar, Swiss Neutrality: Its History and Meaning tr. Mary Hottinger. London, 1946.
Cartledge, Bryan, The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary. New York, 2011.
Comenius on Education, John Amos, New York, 1967.
Coxe, William, History of the House of Austria from the Foundation of the Monarchy 1218 to 1792, Volumes II-III. London, 1847.
Dill, Marshall Jr., Germany: A Modern History. Ann Arbor, 1961.
Evans, R. J. W., The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy 1550-1700. Oxford, 1979.
Gagliardo, John G., Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790. London, 1991.
Grimmelshausen, H. J. C. von, The Adventurous Simplicissimus tr. A. T. S. Goodrick, Lincoln, 1962.
Historians’ History of the World, Volume 14: The Germanic Empire ed. Henry Smith Williams. London, 1926.
History of Hungary, A ed. Peter F. Sugar et al. Bloomington 1990.
Holborn, Hajo, A History of Modern Germany 1648-1840. Princeton, 1964.
Ingrao, Charles W., The Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815. Cambridge, 2000.
Ingrao, Charles W., In Quest and Crisis: Emperor Joseph I and the Habsburg Monarchy. West Lafayette, 1979.
Kann, Robert A. and Zdenek V. David, The Peoples of the Eastern Hapsburg Lands, 1526-1918. Seattle, 1984.
Kann, Robert A., A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918. Berkeley, 1974.
Kann, Robert A. and Zdenek V. David, The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918. Seattle, 1984.
Keating, M. W., The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius. London, 1896.
Komensky, John Amos, The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart tr. Count Lutzow. New York, 1901.
Leibniz, Political Writings tr. Patrick Riley. Cambridge, 1988.
Leibniz, Selections ed. Philip P. Wiener. New York, 1951.
Leibniz, G. W., Confessio philosophi: Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil, 1671-1678 tr. Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. New Haven, 2005.
Luck, James Murray, A History of Switzerland. Palo Alto, 1985.
Lutzov, Count von and H. A. Piehler, Bohemia: An Historical Sketch. London, 1939.
Malcolm, Noel, Kosovo: A Short History. London, 1998.
Menzel, Wolfgang, Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 3 tr. Mrs. George Horrocks. New York, 1899.
Monroe, Will S., Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform. New York, 1971.
Oechsli, Wilhelm, History of Switzerland 1499-1914 tr. Eden & Cedar Paul. Cambridge, 1922.
Reinhardt, Kurt F., Germany: 2000 Years, Volume 1. New York, 1961.
Rodes, John E., Germany: a history. New York, 1964.
Sadler, John Edward, J. A. Comenius and the Concept of Universal Education. New York, 1966.
Spielman, John P., The City & The Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court 1600-1740. West Fayette, 1993.
Spielman, John P., Leopold I of Austria. New Brunswick, 1977.
Tapié, Victor-L., The Rise and Fall of the Hapsburg Monarchy tr. Stephen Hardman. New York, 1971.
Wheatcroft, Andrew, The Hapsburgs: Embodying Empire. London, 1995.
White, Andrew Dickson, Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason. New York, 1910.
Wilson, Peter H., From Reich to Revolution: German History, 1558-1806. London, 2004.

Netherlands

Blok, Petrus Johannes, History of the People of the Netherlands, Volume 4-5 tr. Oscar A. Bierstadt and Ruth Putnam. New York, 1900, 1907.
Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics ed. Olli Koistinen. Cambridge, 2009.
Geyl, Pieter, The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, Part Two: 1648-1715. London, 1964.
Geyl, Pieter, Orange and Stuart 1641-1672 tr. by Arnold Pomerans. New York, 1969.
Gullan-Whur, Margaret, Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza. New York, 1998.
Hampshire, Stuart, Spinoza. Baltimore, 1951.
Huizinga, J. H., Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century and other essays tr. Arnold J. Pomerans. New York, 1968.
Israel, Jonathan, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806. Oxford, 1995.
Meeüs, Adrien de, History of the Belgians tr. G. Gordon. New York, 1962.
Price, J. L., Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. London, 2011.
Rowen, Herbert H., John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672. Princeton, 1978.
Rowen, Herbert H., John de Witt: Statesman of the “True Freedom.” Cambridge, 1986.
Rowen, Herbert H., The Princes of Orange: The Stadholders in the Dutch Republic. Cambridge, 1988.
Spinoza, Baruch, The Book of God ed. Dagobert D. Runes. New York, 1958.
Spinoza, Benedict de, The Chief Works of: On the Improvement of the Understanding, The Ethics, Correspondence. New York, 1951.
Spinoza, Benedict de, Theological-Political Treatise tr. Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel. Cambridge, 2007.
Spinoza, The Collected Works of tr. Edwin Curley, Volume 1. Princeton, 1985.
Spinoza, Ethics tr. Andrew Boyle and G. H. R. Parkinson. London, 1989.
Spinoza, Ethics tr. W. H. White and A. H. Stirling. Chicago, 1952.
Spinoza, Baruch, How to Improve Your Mind ed. Dagobert D. Runes. New York, 1956.
Spinoza’s Short Treatise God, Man, & His Well-Being tr. A. Wolf. New York, 1963.
Spinoza, Benedict de, A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise tr. R. H. M. Elwes. New York, 1951.
Van der Zee, Henri and Barbara, William and Mary. London, 1973.
Vlekke, Bernard H. M., Evolution of the Dutch Nation. New York, 1945.
Wilson, Charles, The Dutch Republic and the civilization of the seventeenth century. New York, 1968.

Scandinavia

Andersson, Ingvar, A History of Sweden tr. Carolyn Hannay. London, 1956.
Birch, J. H. S., Denmark in History. London, 1938.
Derry, T. K., A History of Scandinavia. Minneapolis, 1979.
Gjerset, Knut, History of Iceland. New York, 1924.
Gjerset, Knut, History of the Norwegian People. 2 volumes. New York, 1932.
Hatton, R. M., Charles XII of Sweden. New York, 1968.
Historians’ History of the World, Volume 16: Scandinavia; Switzerland to 1715 ed. Henry Smith Williams in. London, 1926.
Huygens, Christiaan, Treatise on Light. Chicago, 1952.
Johannesson, Jon, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth tr. Haraldur Bessason. Manitoba, 1974.
Jutikkala, Eino with Kauko Pirinen, A History of Finland. London, 1962.
Larsen, Karen, A History of Norway. Princeton, 1948.
Lauring, Palle, The Kingdom of Denmark tr. David Hohnen. Copenhagen, 1960.
Nilsson, Victor, Sweden. New York, 1899.
Scott, Franklin D., Sweden: The Nation’s History. Minneapolis, 1977.
Sorensen, Sigvart, Norway. New York, 1899.
Upton, A. F., Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism. Cambridge, 1998.
Voltaire, History of Charles II tr. William F. Fleming. Paris, 1901.
Wuorinen, John H., A History of Finland. New York, 1965.

Poland-Lithuania and Russia

Bain, R. Nisbet, The First Romanovs (1613-1725). New York, 1905.
Bain, R. Nisbet, Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796. Cambridge, 1908.
Bobrick, Benson, East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia. New York, 1992.
Bushkovitch, Paul, Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725. Cambridge, 2001.
Buzzi, Giancarlo, The Life & Times of Peter the Great tr. Ben Johnson. Philadelphia, 1967.
Cambridge History of Poland from the Origins to Sobieski (to 1696), The ed. W. F. Reddaway et al. Cambridge, 1950.
Cambridge History of Poland from Augustus II to Pilsudski (1697-1935), The ed. W. F. Reddaway et al. London, 1941.
Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 1: From Early Rus’ to 1689 ed. Maureen Perrie. Cambridge, 2006.
Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 ed. Dominic Lieven. Cambridge, 2006.
Chirovsky, Nicolas L. Fr., A History of the Russian Empire, Volume 1: Grand-ducal Vladimir and Moscow. New York, 1973.
Clarkson, Jesse D., A History of Russia. New York, 1969.
Davies, Norman, God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Volume 1 The Origins to 1795. New York, 1982.
Dukes, Paul, The Making of Russian Absolutism 1613-1801. New York, 1990
Evtuhov, Catherine et al, A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces. Boston, 2004.
Russia: A History ed. Gregory L. Freeze. Oxford, 2009
Gieysztor, Aleksander et al, History of Poland tr. Krystyna Cekalska et al. Warszawa, 1968.
Halecki, O., A History of Poland. New York, 1956.
Imperial Russia: A Source Book, 1700-1917 ed. Basil Dmytryshyn. Hinsdale, 1974.
Kluchevsky, Vasili, Peter the Great tr. Liliana Archibald. New York, 1958.
Kliuchevsky, V. O., A Course in Russian History: The Seventeenth Century tr. Natalie Duddington. New York, 1994.
Kluchevsky, V. O., A History of Russia, Volume 2 tr. C. J. Hogarth. New York, 1912.
Klyuchevsky, Vasili, The Rise of the Romanovs tr. Liliana Archibald. London, 1970.
Lincoln, W. Bruce, The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias. New York, 1967.
Massie, Robert K., Peter the Great: His Life and World. New York, 1980.
Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales tr. Serge A. Zenkovsky. New York, 1963.
Pares, Bernard, A History of Russia. New York, 1953.
Rambaud, Alfred, Russia, Volume 1. New York, 1900.
Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Abolition of Serfdom ed. Sidney Harcave. New York, 1962.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., A History of Russia. New York, 1969.
Stone, Daniel, The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795. Seattle, 2001.
Sumner, B. H., Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia. New York, 1962.
Walsh, Warren Bartlett, Russia and the Soviet Union: A Modern History. Ann Arbor, 1958.
Zamoyski, Adam, The Polish Way: A Thousand-year History of the Poles and their Culture. New York, 1987.

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