num_pages: 638
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918
titlecomplete: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918 (History of Modern Europe)
genres: History, World War I, International Relations, 19th Century, France, European History, Politics, Political Science, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 345
series: Oxford History of Modern Europe
publisher: Oxford University Press