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Title: The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848 by Paul W. Schroeder ISBN: 0-19-820654-2 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $53.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Great and necessary work, but biased
Comment: "The Transformation of European Politics" has become THE standard text on diplomatic affairs of the 1763-1848. Its sweeping theses capture the reader. Where the book runs into trouble is the author's insistence on the culpability of France and Napoleon for the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. According to Schroeder the British and their allies were willing to accept French domination of Western Europe but Napoleon never accepted any limits to his goals and embarked on a campaign of World Conquest. Anything the Brits did to organize coalitions to destroy France was only in response to French aggression, etc. And the Congress of Vienna was the greatest human achievement since man learned to write, despite the fact that it stiffled the development of democracy in Europe. In particular I noticed points where Schroeder selectively uses arguments of older historians, but then fails to use arguments of the same historians which contradict his thesis (Albert Sorel for one). An important work, even if you need to argue against it.

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