The volume's first three chapters provide an overview of the nature of diplomacy, followed by a fourth chapter that tries to make some sense of the continental powers' impact outside Europe the book's second half is neatly divided into four chronological reaches (1648-99, 1700-40, 1740-83, 1783- 1815), even as he warns us that there are certain undesirable tradeoffs involved with any kind of periodization. He also endeavors to strike a compromise between the need to be comprehensive and to say something new, perhaps even something beyond what he has already written in his other 50+ books. He displays here his usual flair for writing, together with a level of factual detail-accurately rendered-that is unusual for books with such a broad reach. In many ways this book is typical of the many historical surveys that Jeremy Black has published. European International Relations, 1648-1815. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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