Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914 - Bridge, Roy a Bullen, Roger

Provides an analytical narrative of the functioning of the European states system over the 19th-century between the fall of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of WWI just one hundred years later. This book examines the devices, manoeuvres and feats of statesmanship by means of which decision-makers managed the interplay of their interests.