The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 - The Modern European State System - Hamish Scott - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138134232 - November 2, 2015
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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.


456 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 2, 2015
ISBN13 9781138134232
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 456
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   766 g
Language English  

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