The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815

by H.M. Scott

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582217172
• ISBN13: 9780582217171
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"