The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Author's acknowledgements -- Dates, distances and place names -- Introduction: Europe's emerging Great Power System -- 1 The European states in 1740 -- France -- Spain -- Britain -- The Dutch Republic -- Austria -- Russia -- Poland -- The Scandinavian states -- The Ottoman Empire -- The States-System in 1740 -- 2 The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748 -- The Anglo-Spanish War of 1739-1748 -- Prussia's seizure of Silesia, 1740-1742 -- Austria's recovery, 1742-1744 -- A widening conflict, 1744-1748 -- The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748 -- 3 The Diplomatic Revolution and the origins of the Seven Years War, 1748-1756 -- The unofficial Anglo-French War in America, 1748-1755 -- The origins of the diplomatic revolution, 1748-1756 -- The origins of the continental Seven Years War -- 4 The Seven Years War, 1756-1763 -- Prussia's struggle for survival -- The Anglo-Bourbon War -- 5 The eighteenth-century international system -- A system of Great Powers -- The diplomatic network -- The nature of diplomacy -- The rise of foreign offices -- The nature of international rivalry -- 6 The transformation of the European System, 1763-1775 -- The Great Powers after the Seven Years War -- Russia, Prussia and the 'Northern System', 1764-1768 -- The Russo-Ottoman War and the first partition of Poland, 1768-1775 -- 7 Russian dominance in Eastern Europe, 1775-1795 -- Austrian attempts to acquire Bavaria, 1777-1785 -- Russian expansion in the Balkans, 1774-1792 -- The destruction of Poland, 1772-1795 -- 8 The Anglo-Bourbon struggle overseas and in Europe, 1763-1788 -- Anglo-French relations after the Seven Years War, 1763 -1774 -- Britain, the Bourbon powers and American independence, 1775-1783.

British recovery and French eclipse, 1783-1788 -- 9 Europe and the French Revolution, 1789-1797 -- The initial impact of the Revolution -- The origins of the War of 1792 -- The War of the First Coalition, 1793-1797 -- The French Revolution and European diplomacy -- 10 France's expansion in Europe, 1797-1807 -- Britain's struggle with Revolutionary France -- The origins of the Second Coalition, 1797-1798 -- The War of the Second Coalition, 1798-1802 -- Napoleon and the European States-System -- The renewal of the Anglo-French War and the formation of the Third Coalition, 1802-1805 -- The destruction of the Third Coalition, 1805-1807 -- Tilsit and the Franco-Russian rapprochement -- 11 Napoleonic Europe, 1807-1815 -- The Grand Empire -- Challenges to the Napoleonic Empire, 1808-1812 -- The defeat of Napoleon, 1812-1815 -- The Vienna settlement, 1814-1815 -- Conclusion: The eighteenth-century origins of the nineteenth-century Great Power System -- Chronology of principal events -- Bibliographical essay -- Index.

Outlining the long-running rivalries that shaped international relations into the mid-nineteenth century and beyond, this important new edition provides an up-to-date survey of the decisive events and changes that gave birth to the European state system. Unusual in extending across the divide usually represented by French Revolution of 1789, the book demonstrates how events both before and after this great upheaval merged to produce the central political development in modern European history. For undergraduates studying Modern European history.

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