War, Politics and Diplomacy: The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763 - Softcover

Schweizer, Karl W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761820957 ISBN 13: 9780761820956

Publisher: University Press of America, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Karl W. Schweizer is Professor and Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761820957
• ISBN 13: 9780761820956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298