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An Age of Neutrals

An Age of Neutrals

Abbenhuis, Maartje

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1107037603
ISBN13: 9781107037601
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 12 2014
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
An Age of Neutrals provides a pioneering history of neutrality in Europe and the wider world between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The 'long' nineteenth century (1815-1914) was an era of unprecedented industrialization, imperialism and globalization; one which witnessed Europe's economic and political hegemony across the world. Dr Maartje Abbenhuis explores the ways in which neutrality reinforced these interconnected developments. She argues that a passive conception of neutrality has thus far prevented historians from understanding the high regard with which neutrality, as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft and as a popular ideal with numerous applications, was held. This compelling new history exposes neutrality as a vibrant and essential part of the nineteenth-century international system; a powerful instrument used by great and small powers to solve disputes, stabilize international relations and promote a variety of interests within and outside the continent.

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