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Best History books of 2015 - Cunegonde's Kidnapping by Ben Kaplan
Tony Barber at the Financial Times has chosen聽Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment聽by Professor Kaplan as one of the best聽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.'聽
聽on the Financial Times website or聽聽from Yale University Press!