Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914

This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.

Since 1999 F.R. Bridge has been Emeritus Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of Leeds.His publications include: Great Britain and Austria Hungary 1906-1914: A Diplomatic history (London 1972) From Sadowa to Sarajevo:  The Foreign policy of Austria-Hungary 1866-1914 (London 1972);  (With Roger Bullen) The Great Powers and the European States System, 1815-1914,  (London, 1980.) ; 1914: The Coming of the First World War.    (London,  Historical Association, 1982) The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815-1918  (Oxford,  Berg Press,1991);  and numerous articles and parts of books in the field of international history.