PART I: The Destruction of Eighteenth-Century Politics
1: 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
7: Tilsit Undermined, 1807-1809
8: Napoleon's Empire and the International System
9: Napoleon's War with his Empire, 1810-1812
PART II: The Construction of the Nineteenth-Century System
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
Bibliography
Index
New title in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series
Paul Schroeder is author of The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American
Relations 1941 (Cornell University Press, 1958), Metternich's
Diplomacy at its Zenith 1820-1823 (University of Texas Press, 1962;
pbk 1976), and Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The
Destruction of the European Concert (Cornell University Press,
1972). He is on the editorial board of, amongst others,
International History Review, and American
Historical Review, and was elected Peace Fellow by the United
States Institute of Peace in 1992.
'It is the highest praise to say that this book is a worthy
successor to Taylor's original volume. Sometimes, despite the
forty-year gap, Schroeder's insights connect very directly with
those of Taylor ... he has made as good a case as has been made in
recent years for treating international history as an important
discipline in its own right.'
Times Literary Supplement
`Schroeder's magisterial work is already justly acclaimed as a
classic ... the book is well structured, clearly written and
organised by a number of central theses ... this volume will long
stand deservedly as a classic and is unlikely to be matched at this
length ... Schroeder both has a truly European range and spans the
gulf between history and political science. He achieves both more
fully than any other scholar. Those who are expert in the
subject
will recognise the brilliance and the scholarship of this
volume.'
Times Higher Educational Supplement
`Schroeder gives a new and positive interpretation to the concept
of the `concert' of Europe.'
History Today
`rather a lengthy but highly readable and provicative examination
of the development of international relations during that period.
The book is strewn with rejected traditional interpretations and
discarded scholarly truisms...Schroeder delights in iconoclasm.
That is part of the charm of this book which makes it such fun to
read...stimulating and challenging book.'
The Historian
`a survey of European diplomacy over the previous eight-five years
which has all the power and authority of taylor's work, together
with his argumentativeness and sense of paradox...provocative and
informed by an overarching theory...an indispensable work of
reference, a sure-footed guide through the intricacies of great
power politics, a much needed new account of the Congress of Vienna
and Congress era in particular, and a monument of scholarship
and
stamina.'
French History 9:2
`Professor Schroeder has shown himself equal to the challenge,
providing a survey of European diplomacy over the previous
eighty-five years which has all the power and authority of Taylor's
work, together with his argumentativeness and sense of paradox. If
it is less outrageous and crafted with more patience, worked like
wrought iron, to use Schroeder's own analogy, it is nonetheless
provocative and informed by an overarching theory.'
R.N. Gildea, Merton College, Oxford
`Until now Paul Schroeder has been known as a good historian;
henceforward he will be remembered as a great one. Dazzling in its
concepts and masterly in its execution, The Transformation of
European Politics is a sweeping review of the international history
of Europe from the end of the Seven Years' War to the revolutions
of 1848. Certain to be essential for all students and scholars
working on this period, its extraordinary breadth of vision,
entertaining
language and penetrating insights must surely guarantee it
recognition as a classic of twentieth-century historiography ... a
work of untrammelled brilliance whose author deserves not only the
utmost
credit but also the thanks and admiration of the entire historical
community; there can, in consequence, be no doubt that it will
remain the standard work for many years to come.'
Charles Esdaile, University of Liverpool, European Review of
History-Revue européenne d'histoire Vol. 3 No. 2
`elegantly written ... What makes this volume so admirable and
persuasive is that it is both based on the deepest imaginable
reading, including study in archives, and also embodies the results
of remorseless thinking about every twist and turn of international
affairs, and much else, thoughout this complicated period.
Schroeder takes no established opinion for granted. He probes
incessantly the motives of all concerned. What he has to say about
every one of
the numerous crises and incidents he discusses is at once learned
and profound, penetrating and decisive, always fresh and often
brilliantly original. It is certainly a provocative book ...
exceptionally
accurate, superbly planned and splendidly written ... It is a
genuinely great book.'
Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, EHR Apr.96
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