The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815. This item is unavailable.The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815

Outlining the long-running rivalries that shaped international relations into the mid-nineteenth century and beyond, this important new book provides an up-to-date survey of the decisive events and changes that gave birth to the European state system. Unusual in extending across the divide usually represented by French Revolution of 1789, the book demonstrates how events both before and after this great upheaval merged to produce the central political development in modern European history. For undergraduates studying Modern European history.

Hamish Scott is a Professor of International History at the University of St Andrews.

He is recognised as the leading authority in the English-speaking world on later-eighteenth century international relations and is also the author of three previous studies of aspects of this subject, most recently of The emergence of the Eastern Powers 1756-1775 (Cambridge).