330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied, little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins, development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the larger ideas and aspirations of international diplomacy that gradually emerged from its immediate... Read more
Chapter One The ‘New Diplomacy’ of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Chapter Two Old Regime Diplomacy at its Height, c1600–1789; Chapter Three Coming to Terms with a Changing World, 1789–1919; Chapter Four The Balance of Power; Chapter Five The Quest for International Peace; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
M.S. Anderson
'a most interesting and instructive book... Anderson avoids an English-speaking centred approach by drawing heavily on French, German and Italian writers, thereby making a whole range of unfamiliar material easily accessible to students.'
– Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
