The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775Cambridge University Press, 15 nov. 2001 - 285 pages Throughout the nineteenth century, international relations in Europe were dominated by five great powers - Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia. The creation of this system has been located traditionally in the long struggle with revolutionary and Napoleonic France. By contrast, this study demonstrates that its origins lie half a century earlier. During the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Russia and Prussia in the Seven Years War of 1756-63. Eastern Europe became pre-eminent, and during the 1770s Poland was partitioned for the first time, while Russia and Austria also seized territory from the Ottoman empire. Europe's centre of gravity moved sharply eastwards, and by the later 1770s Russia was emerging as the leading continental power. This study, based upon manuscript and printed sources from six countries, provides a comprehensive analysis of these crucial events. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - Shrike58 - LibraryThingThis is straight-up diplomatic history but surprisingly readable, as Scott goes to some lengths to put the rise of Prussia and Russia as great powers into systemic context. What's particularly useful ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - Shrike58 - LibraryThingThis is straight-up diplomatic history but surprisingly readable, as Scott goes to some lengths to put the rise of Prussia and Russia as great powers into systemic context. What's particularly useful ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
The rise of the eastern powers | 11 |
The Seven Years War and the European states system | 32 |
The domestic legacies of the Seven Years War | 68 |
The stabilisation of Europe 17631766 | 103 |
Diplomacy and the eastern powers | 140 |
From peace to war 17661768 | 162 |
The partition of Europe 17681772 | 187 |
The advance of Russia 17721775 | 225 |
Russia and the emergence of the eastern powers | 249 |
Bibliography | 259 |
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Page 4 - Hume thinks himself more easy and light, than he has been any time for three months. In the course of our conversation we touched upon the national affairs. He still maintains, that the national debt must be the ruin of Britain ; and laments that the two most civilized nations, the English and French, should be on the decline ; and the barbarians, the Goths and Vandals of Germany and Russia, should be rising in power and renown.
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| Titre | The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History |
| Auteurs | H. M. Scott, Lecturer in Modern History H M Scott |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 052179269X, 9780521792691 |
| Longueur | 285 pages |
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