The book corrects many misconceptions about 19th century international relations in Western Europe which, the author feels, have been taken for granted. It is one of the first works to explain why these commonly held ideas are wrong.
The book corrects many misconceptions about 19th century international relations in Western Europe which, the author feels, have been taken for gra...
No period of European history is as widely studied as that from the Vienna settlement to the Treaty of Versailles. Yet few periods are so widely misunderstood. Provocatively reinterpreting the events from 1815 to 1920 in Europe, "From Vienna to Versailles" dispels the myths that obscure much nineteenth-century history. Seaman reexamines the notion that middle class-discontent fomented the 1848 revolutions, that Napolean III overthrew' the Second Republic, and that a condition of international anarchy existed in the decade before 1914, among others. Emphatic and challenging, "From Vienna...
No period of European history is as widely studied as that from the Vienna settlement to the Treaty of Versailles. Yet few periods are so widely misun...
This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period.
This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to th...
