Matthijs Lok studied European history at the Universities of Liverpool, Leiden, and Yale, followed by a brief career as a policy advisor. In 2009 he took his PhD at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 2011 Lok received tenure as an universitair docent and in 2015 he became senior university lecturer. Lok was appointed a senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study NIAS (2019-20) and held visiting positions at the Lichtenberg Kolleg & Moritz Stern Institut Göttingen, Germany (2021-22) and the KU Leuven, Belgium (2022).

• Prologue: Politics of the Past 1: The Ancient Edifice 2: An Unfinished History 3: The Philosopher's Apprentice 4: Crusaders for Moderation 5: Equilibrium against Empire 6: The Pluralist Republic 7: Ancient and Modern State Systems 8: Vienna as a missed Opportunity 9: Revivals of Historical Europeanism

In Europe Against Revolution, Matthijs Lok makes a nuanced and persuasive case for the role and significance of historical interpretations of a common Europe for a varied cast of counter-revolutionaries in the period between 1789 and the years that immediately followed the Congress of Vienna. History provided both a form and a framework for the expression of variously styled conservative or counter-revolutionary thought, whether German, French, Dutch, or British-indeed, the wealth of sources in multiple languages is one of the strengths of the book.

Matthijs Lok studied European history at the Universities of Liverpool, Leiden, and Yale, followed by a brief career as a policy advisor. In 2009 he took his PhD at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 2011 Lok received tenure as an universitair docent and in 2015 he became senior university lecturer. Lok was appointed a senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study NIAS (2019-20) and held visiting positions at the Lichtenberg Kolleg & Moritz Stern Institut Göttingen, Germany (2021-22) and the KU Leuven, Belgium (2022).

• Prologue: Politics of the Past 1: The Ancient Edifice 2: An Unfinished History 3: The Philosopher's Apprentice 4: Crusaders for Moderation 5: Equilibrium against Empire 6: The Pluralist Republic 7: Ancient and Modern State Systems 8: Vienna as a missed Opportunity 9: Revivals of Historical Europeanism

In Europe Against Revolution, Matthijs Lok makes a nuanced and persuasive case for the role and significance of historical interpretations of a common Europe for a varied cast of counter-revolutionaries in the period between 1789 and the years that immediately followed the Congress of Vienna. History provided both a form and a framework for the expression of variously styled conservative or counter-revolutionary thought, whether German, French, Dutch, or British-indeed, the wealth of sources in multiple languages is one of the strengths of the book.

Matthijs Lok studied European history at the Universities of Liverpool, Leiden, and Yale, followed by a brief career as a policy advisor. In 2009 he took his PhD at the History Department of the University of Amsterdam. In 2011 Lok received tenure as an universitair docent and in 2015 he became senior university lecturer. Lok was appointed a senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study NIAS (2019-20) and held visiting positions at the Lichtenberg Kolleg & Moritz Stern Institut Göttingen, Germany (2021-22) and the KU Leuven, Belgium (2022).

• Prologue: Politics of the Past 1: The Ancient Edifice 2: An Unfinished History 3: The Philosopher's Apprentice 4: Crusaders for Moderation 5: Equilibrium against Empire 6: The Pluralist Republic 7: Ancient and Modern State Systems 8: Vienna as a missed Opportunity 9: Revivals of Historical Europeanism

In Europe Against Revolution, Matthijs Lok makes a nuanced and persuasive case for the role and significance of historical interpretations of a common Europe for a varied cast of counter-revolutionaries in the period between 1789 and the years that immediately followed the Congress of Vienna. History provided both a form and a framework for the expression of variously styled conservative or counter-revolutionary thought, whether German, French, Dutch, or British-indeed, the wealth of sources in multiple languages is one of the strengths of the book.