ARTICLES

Continuity, Age, and Relationship to the Crown: Central Arguments in German and English Noble Genealogies in the Late Middle Ages – Matthias Kuhn 3

Observing, Counselling, and Acting in a State of Uncertainty: Reports to the English Government on the Beginnings of the French Holy League, 1584–1588 – Sibylle Röth 30

BOOK REVIEWS

Peter H. Wilson, Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 – Marian Füssel 76

Thomas Pert, The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years’ War: Experiences of Exile in Early Modern Europe, 1632–1648 – Dorothée Goetze 81

Annika Haß, Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik: Die transnationale Verlagsbuchhandlung Treuttel & Würtz, 1750–1850 – Susan Reed 85

Fabrice Bensimon, Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815–1870 – Atlanta Rae Neudorf 91

Maximilian Georg, _Deutsche Archäologen und ägyptische Arbeiter: Historischer Kontext, personelle Bedingungen und soziale
Implikationen von Ausgrabungen in Ägypten, 1898–1914_ –Felix Lüttge 98

Jolita Zabarskaitė, ‘Greater India’ and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c.1885–1965: The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Lost Hindu Empire – Luna Sabastian 103

Mark Fenemore, Dismembered Policing in Postwar Berlin: The Limits of Four-Power Government – Emma Teworte 107

David Paulson, Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany: Competing Approaches to Business – Janis Meder 113

Lauren Stokes, Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany – Özkan Ezli 119

Linda McDougall, Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender – Nikolai Wehrs 131

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Other Histories, Other Pasts – Indra Sengupta 138
Gender Regimes in Modern History – Christina von Hodenberg 145
Medieval Germany Workshop – Marcus Meer and Stephan Bruhn 149
Afterlives of Empire: How Imperial Legacies Shaped European Integration – Tobias Scheib 153

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