This is the only modern study of European politics to cover the entire timespan from the end of the Seven Years'War in 1763 to the revolutionary year of 1848. Paul Schroeder's comprehensive and authoritative volume charts the course of international history over this turbulent period, in which the map of Europe was redrawn time and again. Professor Schroeder examines the wars, political crises, and diplomatic opportunities of the age, many of which - the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Vienna and its aftermath - had far-reaching consequences for modern Europe. Professor Schroeder provides a new account of the course of international politics over these years and a major reinterpretation of the structure and operation of the international system. He shows how the practice of international politics was transformed in revolutionary ways, with far-reaching and beneficial effects. The Vienna Settlement established peace by abandoning the competitive balance-of-power politics of the eighteenth century, and devising a new political equilibrium. It created a European consensus on a new political balance with new rules to maintain it, ushering in a uniquely peaceful, progessive period in European international politics.

Schroeder, Paul W.

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Oxford history of modern Europe, 1. paperback ed, Oxford, 1996

Oxford history of modern Europe, Oxford, New York, 1994

Oxford history of modern Europe, Oxford, Oxford, 1994

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This is the only modern study of European international politics to cover the entire timespan from the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 to the revolutionary year of 1848
Besides offering a comprehensive and authoritative account of this era's many wars, crises, and diplomatic developments, it reveals its unifying theme; the collapse of the eighteenth-century international system in a generation of great systemic wars from 1787 to 1812, the painful construction of a new international system from 1813 to 1815, and the successful operation of that system, giving Europe its most peaceful, progressive era of international politics ever
In a major reinterpretation of the structure and operation of the international system Professor Schroeder rejects most of the standard explanations for the failure of the earlier coalitions against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, the success of the final one, and the durability of the Vienna Settlement. The secret of durable peace was not, he argues, military victory, the restoration of monarchical authority and a balance of power, and the fear of renewed revolution
It was instead the abandonment of competitive eighteenth-century balance-of-power politics in favour of a new political equilibrium, a balance of rights, security, and satisfactions, based upon a genuine, European-wide consensus on the meaning of peace and the kinds of rules and practices needed to sustain it. Thus the story of the transformation of European politics in this era offers insights and hope also for international politics today
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The European system, 1763-1787 -- 2. War and revolution, 1787-1792 -- 3. The first coalition, 1792-1797 -- 4. The second coalition, 1798-1802 -- 5. The third coalition, 1802-1805 -- 6. From Pressburg to Tilsit, 1806-1807 -- Tilsit undermined, 1807-1809 -- Napoleaon's empire and the international system -- 9. Napoleon's war with his empire, 1810-1812 -- 10. Beginning and end, 1812-1813 -- 11. War ended, peace launched, 1813-1814 -- 12. The congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 -- 13. The congress era, 1815-1823 -- 14. Greece and the Russo-Turkish war, 1823-1829 -- 15. Revolutions, progress, and standstill, 1830-1833 -- 16. Deceptive calm and storms, 1833-1841 -- 17. The shadow of revolution, 1841-1848

This reinterpretation of European international politics covers from 1763 to 1848. It charts the course of international history over this turbulent period, in which the map of Europe was redrawn time and again. It examines the wars, political crises, and diplomatic opportunities, many of which had far-reaching consequences for modern Europe.

2023-06-28