The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815
ISBN: 9781315837093
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; History; European History; Modern History 1750-1945;

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book.


Derek McKay is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics.

H.M. Scott is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of St. Andrews.

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