![]() ![]() Taylor, author of the succeeding volume in the Oxford History of Modern Europe, Schroeder delights in iconoclasm. The book is strewn with rejected traditional interpretations and discarded scholarly truisms. He defiantly challenges and questions conventional wisdom. However, Schroeder is not content simply to present a summary or synthesis of the diplomacy of the Great Powers from the age of enlightened despotism to the period of the Restoration. It is an aim that many readers will share and support. Schroeder says so right in his preface: "The work aims to bring international politics back into the centre of this era of European history, where it once was and where it still belongs" (ix). In other words, it is a diplomatic history. ![]() It is rather a lengthy but highly readable and provocative examination of the development of international relations during that period. It does not really deal with the changing nature of politics in Europe between the Seven Years' War and the "springtime of peoples" in the middle of the nineteenth century. The title of this book is somewhat misleading. APA style: The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848.The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848." Retrieved from ![]() 1995 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc.
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