A study of world history from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries focuses on the wars of religion, the changing pattern of Europe, Russia of the Romanovs, the struggle for supremacy, exploration and colonization, and the age of revolutions
Esmond Wright was an English historian of the United States, Director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London from 1971 to 1983, a television personality, author, and a Conservative politician.