Charles Whitworth
Diplomat in the Age of Peter the Great
In 1700 the armies of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden met at Narva to fight the first battle of what was to be known as the Great Northern War. Although this first engagement was to result in a humiliating defeat for Peter, it marked the start of a struggle that twenty years later would see Russia emerge as a major power and radically alter the balance of power in Europe. This work examines the changes in the balance of power in Europe in the early eighteenth century as a result of the Great Northern War and the War of the Spanish Succession through the writings and career of Charles Whitworth, the first British A…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-95261-3
- EAN: 9781351952613
- Produktnummer: 23812640
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 38'074 KB
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