The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon

391 Pages·2021·32.547 MB·English

by  Professor Glenda Sluga

the invention of international order
Forceval, Le Congrès, 1815. Engraving, 18.6 × 27.5 cm. Bibliothèque nationale de France,
Département des Estampes et de la photographie.
The Invention of
International Order
remaking eur ope
a fter napoleon
Glenda Sluga
prince ton university press
princet on & oxford
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For Vida Cetin (1934–2020)
When we study history, it seems to me that we acquire the conviction that
all major events lead towards the same goal of a world civilization. We see
that, in every c entury, new peoples have been introduced to the benefits of
social order and that war, despite all its disasters, has often extended the
empire of enlightenment.
— germaine de staël, de la littérature
[The Vienna generation had learned] from bitter experience that war was
revolution . . . [and] that something else even more fundamental to the
existence of ordered society as they knew it was vulnerable and could
be overthrown: the existence of any international order at all, the very
possibility of their states coexisting as in de pen dent members of a
Eu ro pean family of nations.
— paul w. schroeder, the transformation of
eur op ean politics
figure 1. Thomas Rowlandson, R. Ackermann’s Transparency on the Victory of
Waterloo, 1 June 1815. Hand- colored etching, 22 × 33.8 cm. The Elisha Whittelsey
Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

contents
Preface  · x i
Acknowl edgments  · x iii
Introduction 1
chapter 1 Diplomacy 11
chapter 2 War and Peace 27
chapter 3 Politics 43
chapter 4 Public and Private 57
chapter 5 Eu rope 73
chapter 6 Multilateralism 87
chapter 7 Liberties 105
chapter 8 Science 121
chapter 9 Society 137
chapter 10 Credit and Commerce 159
chapter 11 Religion 175
chapter 12 Chris tian ity 191
chapter 13 International Finance 207
chapter 14 Humanity 221
chapter 15 Realpolitik 235
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