Best History books of 2015 - Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Ben Kaplan
Tony Barber at the Financial Times has chosen Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Kaplan as one of the best History books of 2015.
1 January 2019
'In 1762, religious conflict flared up on the Dutch-German border when a Catholic woman attempted to kidnap a baby to prevent its baptism in a Protestant church. Kaplan paints a lucid, fascinating picture of the Enlightenment as an age of prejudice as much as one of toleration.'Â
 on the Financial Times website or  from Yale University Press!