WAR, POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY. THE ANGLO-PRUSSIAN ALLIANCE, 1756-1763 – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0761820957

(ISBN-13: 9780761820956)

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21,39 cm x 13,82 cm

298

Lanham, Maryland

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Softcover

Englisch

Based on hitherto unused manuscript material, War, Politics and Diplomacy examines the origin, development and collapse of the Anglo-Prussian alliance against the complex backdrop of European politics during the Seven Years War (1756-63). Unlike earlier books in the field, this study views the alliance not as a static entity but as a flexible, dynamic instrument of statecraft ever responsive to military and diplomatic shifts. By examining, for the first time, the disintegration of the alliance in a light of preceding intra-alliance relations, Karl W. Schweizer demonstrates that its failure was certain from the conditions of its formation, the progress of the war, and above all, from the disparate aims and interests of the two partners, England and Prussia. This new approach to the history of the alliance produces a fundamentally different interpretation of its overall development, a disbelief in its prospect of survival after the war and hence a modified evaluation of the role played by the principal statesmen involved.


Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 The European Setting
Chapter 5 Anglo-Prussian Relations After the Convention of Westminister: 1756-1758
Chapter 6 The Subsidy Treaty
Chapter 7 Britain and Prussia 1758-1761
Chapter 8 Bute and the 1761 Peace Negotiations with France
Chapter 9 Bute and the Anglo-Prussian Subsidy Talks, November 1761-January 1762
Chapter 10 Bute, Newcastle and the Hague Overtures
Chapter 11 England, Prussia and Russia, January-March 1762
Chapter 12 The Bedford and Bunbury Motions, February 5, 1762
Chapter 13 The Galitzin Letter
Chapter 14 The End of the Subsidy Treaty
Chapter 15 Epilogue
Chapter 16 Conclusions
Chapter 17 Appendixes
Chapter 18 Endnotes
Chapter 19 Bibliography
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author

2001

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