Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession

From 1702 to 1714, the War of the Spanish Succession affected most of Europe and significant parts of the New World, with battles ranging from the Hungarian plains to the harbors of Rio de Janeiro. The death of the last Hapsburg King of Spain unleashed a struggle for his empire. This book includes entries analyzing the individuals who determined the course of the war, who played a diplomatic, economic, or military role, as well as entries analyzing the pivotal battles influencing the outcome. The provisions of the final treaties, known as the Pacification of Utrecht, are examined in detail, as is the significance of those provisions. The diplomats at Utrecht followed the principles of balance of power, compensation, and legitimacy to mold the peace. The peace set the boundaries of Western Europe until the convulsion of the French Revolution.The book opens with an introduction pointing to the significance of the treaties provisions. The alphabetical arrangement of the entries, the numerous cross-references, the bibliographies at the end of the entries, a genealogical table, a chronology, and the index make this work easy to use.

?[F]or student and professional historian alike, a Utrecht historical and critical dictionary is a welcome addition to the reference shelf... The literary and historical level of the writing in the dictionary is gererally high, making the book a pleasure to read and use....as I turn the pages of the Frey Dictionary and read so many solid articles on such a variety of topics, i admire and am grateful for the solid scholarly accomplishment. Keep this book near your desk alongside your dictionary and your Wordperfect For Dummies. You will certainly use it.?-Canadian Journal of History, ?An excellent, exceedingly useful resource for graduate collections in history.?-Choice, ?This effort will serve as a helpful introduction for those wishing to study this important conflict, which had international impact. Each entry is well written, and the multilingual bibliographical entries are helpful, as are the Spanish Succession chart and the chronogical timeline of this confict at the end of the volume.?-ARBA, "ÝF¨or student and professional historian alike, a Utrecht historical and critical dictionary is a welcome addition to the reference shelf... The literary and historical level of the writing in the dictionary is gererally high, making the book a pleasure to read and use....as I turn the pages of the Frey Dictionary and read so many solid articles on such a variety of topics, i admire and am grateful for the solid scholarly accomplishment. Keep this book near your desk alongside your dictionary and your Wordperfect For Dummies. You will certainly use it."-Canadian Journal of History, "An excellent, exceedingly useful resource for graduate collections in history."-Choice

LINDA FREY is Professor of History at the University of Montana.MARSHA FREY is Professor of History at Kansas State University. They have coauthored Frederick I, The Man and His Times (1984), A Question of Empire: Leopold I and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1705 (1983), and Societies in Upheaval: Insurrections in France, Hungary, and Spain in the Early Eighteenth Century (Greenwood, 1987).