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The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 Paperback - 2005
by Scott, Hamish
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- Title The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815
- Author Scott, Hamish
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 450
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Harlow
- Date 2005-08-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU0499264
- ISBN 9780582217171 / 0582217172
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.14 x 1.02 in (23.47 x 15.60 x 2.59 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Library of Congress subjects Europe - History - 1789-1815, Europe - History - 1648-1789
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004063798
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.253
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"Scott s serene command of an enormous array of facts and remarkable skill at integrating them into a smooth, readable, and convincing narrative and analysis make the work indispensable for mature scholars and students alike."
Paul W. Schroeder, Professor of History and Political Science (emeritus), Universityof Illinois
"This happy marriage of lucid narrative and penetrating analysis has created a modern classic."
Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History, University of Cambridge
"The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740 1815" examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system.
H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions of Poland; the continuing retreat of the Ottoman Empire; the unprecedented territorial expansion of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, halted by the final defeat of Napoleon were part of a wider process that created the modern great power system, dominated by Europe s five leading states.
Enhanced by maps and a chronology of principal events, this comprehensive and accessible textbook is fully up-to-date in its coverage of recent scholarship. Unlike many other treatments of this period, Scott extends his beyond the French Revolution of 1789 in order to demonstrate how events both before and after this great upheaval merged to produce the central political development in modern European history.
This book addresses "the "crucial phase in the emergence of the modern international system which, with the subsequent addition of the USA, Japan and Russia, has prevailed until the present day.
H.M. Scott is Professor of International History at the University of St Andrews. He is a leading authority on eighteenth century international relations. His previous books include "The Emergence of the Eastern Powers 1756 1775 "(2001).
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- Choice, 06/01/2006, Page 1894