This volume appears as the product of efforts made by the executive committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association over a period of several years to enhance the prestige of the organization and the quality of the program of the annual meetings. Essays include: Psychoanalyzing the Psychoanalyst: Writing the Freud Biography, Peter Gay, Allied Psychological Interpretations of Germans and Nazis During and After World War II, Louise E. Hoffman, London Quakers and the Business of Abolition: A Case for Collective Biography, Judith Jennings, The Experience of Motherhood in Early-Victorian England, Nancy Fix Anderson, Bertha von Suttner, Gender, and the Representation of War, Anne O. Dzamba, Toynbee and the Historical Profession, William H. McNeill, The Austrian Military Response to the French Revolution and Napoleon: The Problem of Popular Participation in War, Gunther E. Rothenberg, Italy's Peculiar Institution: Internal Police Exile, 1861-1914, Richard Bach Jensen, From Theory to Practice: The Reorientation in Mechanical Engineering Education and Bourgeois Society in Germany, 1873-1914, C. W. R. Gispen, Gertrud B, umer and the Weimar Republic: 'New Jerusalem' or 'Politics as Usual?', Catherine E. Boyd, Entering the Corridors of Power: English Women and the High Civil Service, 1925-1945, Gail L. Savage, The Politics of Opposition: German Socialists and the Tirpitz Plan, 1898-1912, Dennis Sweeney. Co-published with the Southern Historical Association.