- CONTENTS
- Notes on contributors = ⅸ
- Introduction : Derek Beales as historian and biographer / T. C. W. BLANNING ; DAVID CANNADINE = 1
- 1 Baron Bartenstein on Count Haugwitz's 'new System' of government / P. G. M. DICKSON = 5
- 2 The rise of the first minister in eighteenth-century Europe / H. M. SCOTT = 21





