Bio

Herbert H. Kaplan is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and author of: Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty. The Critical Years 1806-1816. Stanford University Press, 2006; Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II. American Philosophical Society, 1995; Russia and the Outbreak of the Seven Years' War. University of California Press, 1968; and The First Partition of Poland. Columbia University Press, 1962.

Kaplan currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he continues his research and writing on eighteenth-century international relations, commerce, finance, banking, and Russian and Eastern European history.