Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an authority on early modern British and continental European history, with special interest in international relations, military history, the press, and historical atlases. A prolific historian, he is the author of over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited volumes. He edits the following series for Palgrave Macmillan: British Studies, Social History in Perspective, European History in Perspective and Palgrave Essential Histories.