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The Struggle For Mastery In Europe: 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) Paperback – 7 Jun. 2001

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The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power, dominated Europe in the intervening seventy years. Drawing on a wealth of diplomatic documents, A. J. P. Taylor examines the relations of the Great Powers, when Europe was still the centre of the world. Written in characteristically vigorous prose, this is a challenging and original diplomatic history, that also considers the political and economic forces which made continental war inevitable.

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0198812701
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7 Jun. 2001
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A. J. P Taylor was one of Britain's most respected and influential historians. He was Professor of History and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He died in 1990.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press, U.S.A.; Revised ed. edition (7 Jun. 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 674 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198812701
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198812708
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 13 x 4.85 cm

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Vicky J

Broad sweep but also fabulous detail

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2012

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Having always an interest in the formation of modern Europe, especially of Italy, Germany and Eastern Europe, I thought this would tie things together for me. Too true. It does the job perfectly so that you can see the machinations [or is superb diplomacy] of Metternich, Cavour, Bismarck, von Beust and Russell. Taylor explains in everyday terms why Austria didn't join with the rest of the German-speaking world; and how Italy came to have such a strange northern border; and why the Triple Alliance of 1883 predisposed Europe to a major war; and .....oh too many things to mention. Just well written and easy to follow, even if you need to make the odd note of who's who. And now the Balkan question has been reopened in our time; and the viability of Greece as a sovereign state; and the dominance across the continent of Berlin the old capital of Prussia; and France's continuing claim to be the focus for culture and European sensibility. So much of Taylor's book makes sense today, probably in a way he couldn't envisage. Highly recommended.

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Harveen Khailany

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2014

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A.J.P. Taylor is one of the few left wing historians so it's worth having a look at his work and his views, he's also a great one. The period it covers is a turn of the century kind of time where there was an industrial revolution, democracy was beginning to spread, there was the race between European states of building the biggest empire in which all wanted to beat Britain of course. This book covers everything that happened in this process in great detail, including every alliance no matter how insignificant, treaties between states, which essentially covers different reasons for the build up to World War I and discusses the view that it was "the struggle for mastery in Europe" that ended it because the stronger empires were basically too hard to beat.

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Stephen Murphy

... and I consider it one of the all time great history books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2014

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This was a book I have read many times over the years but lost my very beaten up copy It covers a large part of the period that interests me most and I consider it one of the all time great history books. It is not just a superb text book but a rivetting read. I confess to being a total fan of the author and am surprised that he is not quite as fashionable now. It never ceases to amaze me how differing interpretations of history come and go. It is almost as though this seasons historians feel obliged to put a new slant on known facts merely in order to justify a money making exercise.

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D. Schotman

Het set out to write a history of European diplomacy ang did indeed just that, and how.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2013

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This is book about the European diplomacy between 1948 and 1918 of Taylor who by many is regarded as one of the finest historians of the 20th Century. You could say that the book is actually discussing how the Concert of Europe (set up after the Defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815) came to an end, how international relations were changing and with that the alliances. In this, you can see how slowly the alliances came into existence that eventually lived through till the First World War. But also how Germany feared being overran by either Russia, backed financially by France or Great Britain. How Great Britain feared of losing his dominant position in the world. That gives a pretty paranoid like kind of impression on how separate nations actioned and reasoned, and with that one can clearly understand how the First World War turned out to such disaster, and perhaps was a war that could have been avoided as all this other conflicts that were avoided. Along the way Taylor disuses a dazzling amount of events and people, most important of all of course Bismarck, but also the events of 1848, the Crimean War, the Japanese Russian War, the Balkan Crisis and the founding of several nation states, as the unification of Italy and Germany and fall of others, as the Ottoman Empire. But there is surprisingly less about the Franco-Prussian War, while by now, many regard this war as a pivotal moment in modern history and a war that eventually set the stage for both World Wars.

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IanB

To understand much of the world today, read this first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2016

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Highly condensed but still very readable. Best read with internet access at your side to look up who was playing which position for which country and just when. There are also a couple of pages WITHOUT footnotes - so there's a lot to consider throughout the book.

Everyone trying to understand the worlds of politics and diplomacy today should read this book.

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Edward Romer

AJP Taylor is the best!

Reviewed in Germany on 21 February 2022

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This is the gold standard reference for this period of European history!

Judith H.

A brilliantly detailed history!

Reviewed in the United States on 2 September 2020

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Written by the master of historians, A.J.P. Taylor, this book takes you through all of the European rulers and their exploits. Whether arrogant, deceitful, tyrannical, gullible, or just plain betrayed, they were never able to trust one another, not even when related by marriage or by bloodlines. This is not a book for the average reader, but a book strictly written for students of European history. You must have either a background in European history or a passion to learn about it in order to enjoy this magnificently detailed account! It has 568 pages with no pictures, but several maps. I bought it because modern European history was my major in college and because I consider A.J.P. Taylor to be the most brilliant historian who ever lived.

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There are very few good historians

Reviewed in Canada on 23 March 2017

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Before David Irving, there was A.J.P. Taylor writing truthful histories. And in his time he was impugned and attacked just as Mr. Irving is today.

Z. Hanzlik

circles on the water of times

Reviewed in the United States on 14 November 2009

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Ouch , what a journey through the times , how many hours and resources wasted on study of other books for nothing , while in this work even ignoramus as me can see our static place at the historic pond of European man. Now somes who are invited , they celebrate Fall of the Berlin Wall- and just look on description of Napoleon III and ?.. is he not present days Sarkozy with his courtesans Hilary and Angela caricature of our forgoten past?. Just look on that geometry of environment. Saturated by ill liberated semiskilled ones and office totalitarian paper force, what to do with them? What coalition of willings to make of them ? Just look on those ambassadors of past Gorbachov as Metternich refugee of his own success, Walesa our forgoten Garibaldi. Wau, and new faces are queuing into talent contest. But the shores of the pond are the same, just wait to see who is without sin and throw first peable. Russia , Germany , France , nobles from the Poland ,crazies from Hungary, profesors from Bobemia, and bankers from IMF. One does start understand sentiment , why Churchil said .."if we would have to choose between united Europe and open sea , we would take that other option.." Great read and good references . Must for any secondary school leaver.. Use it in questionare at job application recruitment.

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Yun Sang Pil

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Reviewed in the United States on 30 January 2023

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Amazon was in charge of shipping. Arrived almost a week ahead of schedule, and the book condition is very perfect without wear, corrosion and tear.

However, books are dusty. If you have a respiratory disease, it is better to shake off the book.

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