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An invaluable guide to the battles that determined the war's course, the key individuals, and the provisions of the ensuing peace.

Table of Contents

A Note to the User Introduction Chronology: War of the Spanish Succession Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

LINDA FREY is Professor of History at the University of Montana. MARSHA FREY is Professor of History at Kansas State University. They have coauthored Frederick I, The Man and His Times (1984), A Question of Empire: Leopold I and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1705 (1983), and Societies in Upheaval: Insurrections in France, Hungary, and Spain in the Early Eighteenth Century (Greenwood, 1987).

Reviews

?[F]or student and professional historian alike, a Utrecht historical and critical dictionary is a welcome addition to the reference shelf... The literary and historical level of the writing in the dictionary is gererally high, making the book a pleasure to read and use....as I turn the pages of the Frey Dictionary and read so many solid articles on such a variety of topics, i admire and am grateful for the solid scholarly accomplishment. Keep this book near your desk alongside your dictionary and your Wordperfect For Dummies. You will certainly use it.?-Canadian Journal of History

?An excellent, exceedingly useful resource for graduate collections in history.?-Choice

?This effort will serve as a helpful introduction for those wishing to study this important conflict, which had international impact. Each entry is well written, and the multilingual bibliographical entries are helpful, as are the Spanish Succession chart and the chronogical timeline of this confict at the end of the volume.?-ARBA

"�F�or student and professional historian alike, a Utrecht historical and critical dictionary is a welcome addition to the reference shelf... The literary and historical level of the writing in the dictionary is gererally high, making the book a pleasure to read and use....as I turn the pages of the Frey Dictionary and read so many solid articles on such a variety of topics, i admire and am grateful for the solid scholarly accomplishment. Keep this book near your desk alongside your dictionary and your Wordperfect For Dummies. You will certainly use it."-Canadian Journal of History

"An excellent, exceedingly useful resource for graduate collections in history."-Choice

"This effort will serve as a helpful introduction for those wishing to study this important conflict, which had international impact. Each entry is well written, and the multilingual bibliographical entries are helpful, as are the Spanish Succession chart and the chronogical timeline of this confict at the end of the volume."-ARBA

"[F]or student and professional historian alike, a Utrecht historical and critical dictionary is a welcome addition to the reference shelf... The literary and historical level of the writing in the dictionary is gererally high, making the book a pleasure to read and use....as I turn the pages of the Frey Dictionary and read so many solid articles on such a variety of topics, i admire and am grateful for the solid scholarly accomplishment. Keep this book near your desk alongside your dictionary and your Wordperfect For Dummies. You will certainly use it."-Canadian Journal of History