The emergence of the Eastern powers, 1756-1775 / H.M. Scott.

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9780511018916

9780511119095

9780521792691

9780511496905

9780511047121

9781280159336

Title:

The emergence of the Eastern powers, 1756-1775 / H.M. Scott.

Author:

Scott, H. M. (Hamish M.), 1946-

Personal Author:

Scott, H. M. (Hamish M.), 1946-

Publication Information:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages).

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern history

Contents:

The rise of the eastern powers -- The Seven Years War and the European states system -- The domestic legacies of The Seven Years War -- The stabilisation of Europe, 1763-1766 -- Diplomacy and the eastern powers -- From peace to war, 1766-1768 -- The partition of Europe, 1768-1772 -- The advance of Russia, 1772-1775.

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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 18th century.

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Publication Date:

2001

Publication Information:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Throughout the nineteenth century, international relations in Europe were dominated by five great powers - Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia. The creation of this system has been located traditionally in the long struggle with revolutionary and Napoleonic France. By contrast, this study demonstrates that its origins lie half a century earlier. During the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the European states-system was transformed by the military rise of Russia and Prussia in the Seven Years War of 1756-63. Eastern Europe became pre-eminent, and during the 1770s Poland was partitioned for the first time, while Russia and Austria also seized territory from the Ottoman empire. Europe's centre of gravity moved sharply eastwards, and by the later 1770s Russia was emerging as the leading continental power. This study, based upon manuscript and printed sources from six countries, provides the first comprehensive study of these crucial events.

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Scott (Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland) is already well known for some very useful collections on both enlightened absolutism and the nobilities of the ancien regime, and a survey with Derek McKay, The Rise of the Great Powers, 1648-1815 (CH, Dec'83). One would have hoped that this book, published in the vaunted "Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History" series (which Scott co-edits), would have added to that reputation with an original and significant scholarly contribution. Alas, there is very little that is new or important in this sterile diplomatic narrative. Admittedly, there is a fascination with the emergence of the term "great power" and expansive (though unjustified) allusions to a "partition of Europe"; the author also reemphasizes the commonplace dichotomy between the aggressive Eastern powers and their Western counterfoils. But the volume is dominated by a chronologically arranged recounting of diplomatic minutiae drawn from mostly British and American secondary sources. Chapters generally conclude merely by summing up the chronology and justifying why the author chose to begin a new chapter at that particular point. Even the book's dismal conclusion simply recapitulates developments, updates the reader on where each of the three Eastern powers stood in 1775, and foreshadows what is going to happen next. Hopefully, not in a sequel. Faculty only. C. Ingrao Purdue University

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Acknowledgements

A note on dates and place names

List of abbreviations

Introduction: the eighteenth-century European states system and its transformations

1 The rise of the eastern powers

2 The Seven Years War and the European states system

3 The domestic legacies of the Seven Years War

4 The stabilisation of Europe, 1763âÇô1766

5 Diplomacy and the eastern powers

6 From peace to war, 1766âÇô1768

7 The partition of Europe, 1768âÇô1772

8 The advance of Russia, 1772âÇô1775

Conclusion: Russia and the emergence of the eastern powers

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