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The Invention of International Order - Remaking Europe after Napoleon (Hardcover)
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The Invention of International Order - Remaking Europe after Napoleon (Hardcover)
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The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who
helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after
decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires
captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French
military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This
new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order,
wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy,
philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda
Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new
conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only
of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious
aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at
an extraordinary crossroads in history. In this panoramic book,
Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its
limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits
of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count
Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in
the context of social networks often presided over by influential
women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In
this history, figures such as Madame de Stael and Countess Dorothea
Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway,
while bankers influence economic developments and their families
agitate for Jewish rights. Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking
book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise
of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars,
and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and
international politics still resonate today.
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