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Author Šedivý, Miroslav, author.

Title The decline of the congress system : Metternich, Italy and European diplomacy / Miroslav Šedivý
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series International library of historical studies ; 114
International library of historical studies ; 114.
Contents Front cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: 1815-30; 1 The Heritage of the Congress of Vienna; Part II: 1830-3; 2 The Impact of the July Revolution; 3 The Occupation of Ancona; 4 The Non-Intervention Principle and Honour; Part III: 1840; 5 The Sulphur War; 6 The Rhine Crisis; 7 The Weak Hegemony; Part IV: 1846-8; 8 The Salt-Wine Affair; 9 The Ferrara Affair; 10 The War; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815 the 'Congress System' became the primary system of international relations in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal Congress System that the period 1815-1830 has often been referred to as the ̀Age of Metternich'. In this book, Mirolsav Sedivy analyses Metternich's policy towards the pre-united Italian states from 1830 to 1848. With an emphasis on geopolitics and international law and drawing attention to the unsettled role of the Italian states within European diplomacy in the period, this book explains why the Italian peninsula never developed into the stable region that Metternich hoped to establish at the heart of the Congress System. Owing to the self-interested policies of some European Powers as well as the larger of the Italian states Metternich proved unable to bring about ̀the transformation of European politics' in Italy. Using a thorough analysis of the role that Italy played in the Congress System and based on extensive research in eighteen European archives, this book explains why it was in Italy that the first war broke out after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, an event representing the first brutal blow to the Congress System. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 22, 2019)
Subject Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859.
SUBJECT Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859 fast
Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50055590
Congress of Vienna fast
Europa gnd
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
International relations
Politics and government
Internationale Politik
SUBJECT Austria -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Austria -- Relations -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1815-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069006
Italy -- History -- 1815-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068960
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1815-1871. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045745
Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1815-1871. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045681
Subject Europe
Austria
Italy
Italien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786724038
1786724030
9781786734037
1786734036