H. M. Scott

The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Prussia and Russia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780521792691
• ISBN-10: 052179269X
• Artikelnr.: 21546670

Autorenporträt

Hamish Scott is Professor of International History, University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Rise of the Great Powers, 1648-1815 (1983, with D. McKay) and British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and genealogical table
Acknowledgements
A note on dates and place names
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the eighteenth-century European states system and its transformations
1. The rise of the eastern powers
2. The Seven Years War and the European states system
3. The domestic legacies of the Seven Years War
4. The stabilisation of Europe, 1763-6
5. Diplomacy and the eastern powers
6. From peace to war, 1766-8
7. The partition of Europe, 1768-72
8. The advance of Russia, 1772-5
Conclusion: Russia and the emergence of the eastern powers
Bibliography
Index.