The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848

by Schroeder, Paul W.

• ISBN13: 9780198221197
• ISBN10: 0198221193
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-30
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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, inwhich 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-reachingand 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 auniquely peaceful, progessive period in European international politics.

Author Biography

Paul W. Schroeder is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

The Destruction of Eighteenth-Century Politics

The European System, 1763-1787

War and Revolution, 1787-1792

The First Coalition, 1792-1797

The Second Coalition, 1798-1802

The Third Coalition, 1802-1805

From Pressburg to Tilsit, 1806-1807

Tilsit Undermined, 1807-1809

Napoleon's Empire and the International System

Napoleon's War with his Empire, 1810-1812

The Construction of the Nineteenth-Century System

Beginning and End, 1812-1813

War Ended, Peace Launched, 1813-1814

The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815

The Congress Era, 1815-1823

Greece and the Russo-Turkish War, 1823-1829

Revolutions, Progress, and Standstill, 1830-1833

Deceptive Calm and Storms, 1833-1841

The Shadow of Revolution, 1841-1848

Bibliography

Index

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