'This book has the hallmarks of success stamped through it: breadth
of scope, incisive analysis and a lightness of touch in the
writing.'Professor John Keiger, University of Salford'The Great
Powers and the European State System, 1814-1914' is a full
analytical narrative of the functioning of the European states
system over the nineteenth century between the fall of Napoleon in
1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years
later. It examines the variety of devices, manoeuvres and feats of
statesmanship by means of which decision-makers managed the
interplay of their interests, common and conflicting -including the
dangerous Eastern Question- without exposing Europe to the
catastrophe of a general conflagration: systems of active
co-operation, such as the 'Congress system' or the Concert of
Europe periods of 'international anarchy' in which, if wars were
endemic they were at least limited the stabilizing effects of the
predominance of conservative status quo Powers in the Bismarckian
era the dangerously polarised system that emerged on the eve of the
First World War. At nearly double the length of the first edition,
this book is a very major revision and update
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