PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780713996838
- Categories [2022], BX, BXOS, H/C, History, NF HIS, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities, WBD
- Author(s) Mark Mazower
- Publisher Allen Lane
- Pages 496
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 24.0cm x 4.2cm x 16.2cm
- Weight 0.84 kg
product description
In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals and betraying one another, a new, collegial 'Concert of Europe' would ensure that the brutal chaos of the Napoleonic Wars never happened again. Mark Mazower's remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international government - the struggle to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system. It shows how what started as a European story became the framework for today's world, as free traders, communists and nationalists all put forward their own radical visions of international harmony.

