Great Power Diplomacy: 1814-1914
Title | Great Power Diplomacy: 1814-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Rich |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
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This survey of the foreign relations of the great powers is essentially a straightforward diplomatic history: an attempt to describe how statesmen conducted foreign policy, how they dealt with crisis situations, and how they succeeded or failed to resolve them.
The Art of the Possible
Title | The Art of the Possible PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Richard Menning |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
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An anthology for courses dealing with great power diplomacy in the 19th century, this book raises crucial questions in the history of European foreign relations and seeks to address those questions through excerpts from the documentary record. Included are sources from conference protocol, and treaties as well as from previously untapped sources such as speeches, diary entries and correpsondence. Half the documents included have been translated into English for the first time. Each chapter is introduced by a brief paragraph placing that chapter in a larger historical context. Each document, or group of documents, comes with a head note that introduces the reader to the debates that document has generated and provides a point of departure for discussions or independent research. The text includes maps and concludes with a bibliographical essay that discusses issues of historiography and provides an extensive list for further readings.
The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914
Title | The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Bridge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317867920 |
This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.
Great Power Diplomacy Since 1914
Title | Great Power Diplomacy Since 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Rich |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2002-08-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780070522664 |
Written by a pre-eminent scholar in the field, Great Power Diplomacy, Volume II is a straightforward narrative of diplomatic history from World War I to the end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, and the breakup of Yugoslavia. The fundamental purpose throughout is to provide critical background information about the origin and development of past and current crises. This volume, along with the already-published Volume I, constitutes the first survey of diplomatic history to be published in many years.
The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914
Title | The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | F. R. Bridge |
Publisher | London ; New York : Longman |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | History |
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This book is an interpretative study of the development of the European states system in the classic period between the congress of Vienna and the First World War in the light of the latest research work on the subject.
Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914
Title | Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher John Bartlett |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349249580 |
The causes of war have tended to attract more attention than the causes of peace, yet the two are intimately related, Indeed there was much talk of war during the unprecedentedly long periods of peace between the European great powers in the years 1815-1854 and again in 1871-1914, the Near Eastern crises of 1878 and 1887-8 being only two of the more notable examples. In the case of the latter, there occurred a spell of fatalistic and belligerent talk in both Berlin and Vienna which in many ways anticipated that which gripped those capitals by 1914. A study of the whole question of the best methods by which to defend and advance the national interest is often more illuminating on why wars were avoided that are studies of the documentation surrounding the Holy Alliance, the congress system or the Concert of Europe. It is clear that the Concert tended to become most active only after a war had already been fought, or when the powers had already decided that conflict was likely to prove too costly, dangerous and unpredicatable in its effects both at home and abroad. Thus the Russians twice advanced almost to the gates of Constantinople only to recoil at the implications of trying to obtain control of the Straits. Similarly, Habsburg thoughts of war were frequently neutralised by reminders of financial weakness. This valuable book will be welcomed by anyone wishing to understand the nature of European state relations in the nineteenth century. Professor Bartlett examines why major wars did happen and did not happen, with particular attention being paid to the events of 1914.
The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914
Title | The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Bridge |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317867912 |
This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.