The European Inheritance; Volume II

by Ernest Barker

PARTIAL LIST OF Fifteenth Century; The European State-System; Printing; the Reformations; Wars of Religion; Science and Thought; Wealth of Nations, Power of States; Sixty Years of Warfare; The Baroque; Political, Economic and Social Development in the XVIIIth (15th) Century; France; England; Germany; Russia; Napoleon; The Development of Literature and Culture in the XVIIIth (15th) Century; etc, etc, etc.

Hardcover

First published July 28, 1982

About the author

Sir Ernest Barker FBA (1874 - 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.

Barker was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a don at Oxford and spent a brief time at the London School of Economics. He was Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927, and subsequently became Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge in 1928, being the first holder of the chair endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. In June 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. He was knighted in 1944. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958. There is a memorial stone to him in St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.