Reviews for The State in Western Europe: Retreat or Redefinition?

The average rating for The State in Western Europe: Retreat or Redefinition? based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-06 00:00:00 Jon Cohen Structuralist to a fault (in some cases Jungian?), temporally and geographically unfocused, filled with sweeping generalizations that cannot possibly work, and surprisingly little analysis about gender and masculinity in a book about kings and kingship?????

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-17 00:00:00 Gift Cardholder Fascinating examination of the Counter Reformation, the Spanish super power and the religious wars that kept France weak and drained the Spanish treasury. Of particular interest to readers from the Anglosphere is how vigorous, successful and clever Phillip II of Spain actually was, of how the defeat of the Armada was a disappointment, but not a crushing defeat for Spain and how ineffectual a military leader Francis Drake actually was.