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  R.R. Palmer

  Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002), commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), examined an age of democratic revolution that swept the Atlantic civilization between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.
  
  

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  Andrzej Sapkowski

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  Marc Van de Mieroop

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  Jeremy D. Popkin

  Jeremy D. Popkin received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an A.M. degree from Harvard University. When he was hired on a one-year contract at the University of Kentucky in 1978, the History Department secretary put him in what was then the department's conference room, saying, "Since you won't be staying long, it won't matter." Popkin is still occupying the same office.
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  Thea Beckman

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  Philip Mansel

  Philip Mansel is a historian of courts and cities, and of France and the Ottoman Empire. He was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, where he was a King’s Scholar, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and Modern Languages. Following four years’ research into the French court of the period 1814-1830, he was awarded his doctorate at University College, London in 1978.
  
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  Albert Camus

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  Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
  
  He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
  
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  Koenraad Jonckheere

  Koenraad Jonckheere is professor Noordelijke Renaissance en Barok aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij studeerde geschiedenis en kunstgeschiedenis in Leuven en werkte daarna negen jaar aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam met een tussenstop in Londen.
  
  Jonckheere is gefascineerd door het verschijnsel kunst en schreef eerder over onder andere portretkunst, kunsthandel, iconoclasme en Rubens. Voor het Museum M in Leuven cureerde hij in 2013 de tentoonstelling over de zestiende-eeuwse romanist Michiel Coxcie. Hij won de Jan van Gelder-prijs voor kunstgeschiedenis, was laureaat van de The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium en bekleedde in 2014 de Peter Paul Rubens-Chair (University of California, Berkeley).

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  Bart Keunen

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  R.R. Palmer

  Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002), commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), examined an age of democratic revolution that swept the Atlantic civilization between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.
  
  

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  Karel Davids

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  Adrian Goldsworthy

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  Koenraad Jonckheere

  Koenraad Jonckheere is professor Noordelijke Renaissance en Barok aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij studeerde geschiedenis en kunstgeschiedenis in Leuven en werkte daarna negen jaar aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam met een tussenstop in Londen.
  
  Jonckheere is gefascineerd door het verschijnsel kunst en schreef eerder over onder andere portretkunst, kunsthandel, iconoclasme en Rubens. Voor het Museum M in Leuven cureerde hij in 2013 de tentoonstelling over de zestiende-eeuwse romanist Michiel Coxcie. Hij won de Jan van Gelder-prijs voor kunstgeschiedenis, was laureaat van de The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium en bekleedde in 2014 de Peter Paul Rubens-Chair (University of California, Berkeley).

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  Bart Keunen

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  Philip Mansel

  Philip Mansel is a historian of courts and cities, and of France and the Ottoman Empire. He was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, where he was a King’s Scholar, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and Modern Languages. Following four years’ research into the French court of the period 1814-1830, he was awarded his doctorate at University College, London in 1978.
  
  His first book, Louis XVIII, was published in 1981 and this - together with subsequent works such as The Court of France 1789-1830 (1989), Paris Between Empires 1814-1852 (2001) - established him as an authority on the later French monarchy. Six of his books have been translated into French.
  
  Altogether Philip Mansel has published eleven book

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  Karel Davids

  See also works published as C.A. Davids.
  
  Karel Davids is Full Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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