Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A History of Greece: The Greek revolution, pt. 1, A.D. 1821-1827
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A History of Greece from Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Greek revolution, pt. 1, A.D. 1821-1827
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A History of Greece from Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864: The Greek revolution, pt. 1, A.D. 1821-1827
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A History of Greece
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781295065950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781295065950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A History of Greece: The Greek revolution, pt. 1, A.D. 1821-1827
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A History of Greece, from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B. C. 146 to 1864
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Metternich's Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
Author: Paul W. Schroeder
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292767919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
What Metiernich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pre-eminent figure in European politics. Metternich's single-minded objective during 1820–1823 was to preserve the Austrian hegemony he had gained in Central Europe after long wars, enormous effort, and great sacrifice. If the internal security and international-power position secured by Austria at the Congress of Vienna were to be defended against the impact of widespread revolution in Europe, it was imperative that peace in Europe and the status quo be maintained. This required an unyielding opposition to all political movements that might disturb the equilibrium, especially French chauvinism and the spread of French constitutional ideas. A one-man distillate of the doctrine of absolute monarchy, Metternich was the relentless foe of any cause, just or unjust, that threatened European repose. Hence, when the revolution in Naples seriously menaced Austrian hegemony in Italy, Metternich determined that the constitutional regime in Naples must be overthrown by an Austrian armed force, an absolute monarchy restored, and an Austrian army of occupation kept there. Nor did he scruple to use duplicity, secret negotiation, trickery, or deceit against ally and adversary alike in his effort to enlist them in the common cause of all thrones. At the Congress of Troppau, Metternich succeeded not only in defeating Russian ideas for peaceful intervention and a moderate constitution at Naples, but also in converting Tsar Alexander to thoroughly conservative views, thereby making Russia a powerful supporter of Austrian policies and knowingly alienating England, formerly Austria's closest ally. Paul W. Schroeder brings to this bookexceptional scholarship and an objectivity hard to attain when dealing with a personality. Although Metternich, as Schroeder sees him, doubtless helped to maintain European peace and order, his real greatness consisted not in his European principles, but in his ability to defend Austrian interests under the guise of European principles. The evidence, gathered from documentary material in the Haus Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna, has forced the author to the conclusion that Metternich was no real statesman. The very qualities that distinguished him as a brilliant diplomat—keen vision, cogent analysis, fertility of expedients, farsightedness, flexibility, and firmness of purpose—were converted into those of blindness to reality, superficial analysis, sterility of expedients, dogmatism, and failure of will when confronted with fundamental problems of state and society.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292767919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
What Metiernich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pre-eminent figure in European politics. Metternich's single-minded objective during 1820–1823 was to preserve the Austrian hegemony he had gained in Central Europe after long wars, enormous effort, and great sacrifice. If the internal security and international-power position secured by Austria at the Congress of Vienna were to be defended against the impact of widespread revolution in Europe, it was imperative that peace in Europe and the status quo be maintained. This required an unyielding opposition to all political movements that might disturb the equilibrium, especially French chauvinism and the spread of French constitutional ideas. A one-man distillate of the doctrine of absolute monarchy, Metternich was the relentless foe of any cause, just or unjust, that threatened European repose. Hence, when the revolution in Naples seriously menaced Austrian hegemony in Italy, Metternich determined that the constitutional regime in Naples must be overthrown by an Austrian armed force, an absolute monarchy restored, and an Austrian army of occupation kept there. Nor did he scruple to use duplicity, secret negotiation, trickery, or deceit against ally and adversary alike in his effort to enlist them in the common cause of all thrones. At the Congress of Troppau, Metternich succeeded not only in defeating Russian ideas for peaceful intervention and a moderate constitution at Naples, but also in converting Tsar Alexander to thoroughly conservative views, thereby making Russia a powerful supporter of Austrian policies and knowingly alienating England, formerly Austria's closest ally. Paul W. Schroeder brings to this bookexceptional scholarship and an objectivity hard to attain when dealing with a personality. Although Metternich, as Schroeder sees him, doubtless helped to maintain European peace and order, his real greatness consisted not in his European principles, but in his ability to defend Austrian interests under the guise of European principles. The evidence, gathered from documentary material in the Haus Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna, has forced the author to the conclusion that Metternich was no real statesman. The very qualities that distinguished him as a brilliant diplomat—keen vision, cogent analysis, fertility of expedients, farsightedness, flexibility, and firmness of purpose—were converted into those of blindness to reality, superficial analysis, sterility of expedients, dogmatism, and failure of will when confronted with fundamental problems of state and society.
A History of Greece from its conquest by the Romans to the present time
Author: George Finlay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Class List of the Books in the Reference Library
Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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