Competition for empire, 1740-1763 / by Walter L. Dorn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rise of modern Europe | Harper torchbooksEdition: First Harper Torchbook editionDescription: xii, 424 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Competition for empire, 1740-1763.LOC classification:
  • D289 .D6 1963
Contents:
I. The competitive state system -- II. Leviathan state -- Feudal versus bureaucratic officialism -- France -- Spain -- Hapsburg Monarchy -- Prussia -- Russia -- England -- III. Eighteenth-Century militarism -- IV. Balance of the Continents -- Anglo-Spanish War -- Austrian succession -- Prussian invasion of Silesia -- Belle Isle and the continental coalition -- British intervention and its consequences -- Italian War -- D'Argenson -- War on Commerce -- Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle -- V. Age of Enlightenment -- VI. Commerce and empire -- Colonies and National economy -- French and British Imperial systems -- West Indies -- India -- North America, and the outbreak of the War -- VII. Diplomatic revolution -- British initiative -- Count Kaunitz's grand design -- Prussia and the convention of Westminster -- The reversal of Alliances -- Frederick the Great and the origin of the War -- VIII. Seven Years' War -- The strategy of diversion -- Prussia's struggle for existence -- Dictatorship of William Pitt -- Duke of Choiseul -- Colonial War; Canada, The West Indies, India -- Between War and Peace -- The Peace of Paris.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-414) and index.

I. The competitive state system -- II. Leviathan state -- Feudal versus bureaucratic officialism -- France -- Spain -- Hapsburg Monarchy -- Prussia -- Russia -- England -- III. Eighteenth-Century militarism -- IV. Balance of the Continents -- Anglo-Spanish War -- Austrian succession -- Prussian invasion of Silesia -- Belle Isle and the continental coalition -- British intervention and its consequences -- Italian War -- D'Argenson -- War on Commerce -- Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle -- V. Age of Enlightenment -- VI. Commerce and empire -- Colonies and National economy -- French and British Imperial systems -- West Indies -- India -- North America, and the outbreak of the War -- VII. Diplomatic revolution -- British initiative -- Count Kaunitz's grand design -- Prussia and the convention of Westminster -- The reversal of Alliances -- Frederick the Great and the origin of the War -- VIII. Seven Years' War -- The strategy of diversion -- Prussia's struggle for existence -- Dictatorship of William Pitt -- Duke of Choiseul -- Colonial War; Canada, The West Indies, India -- Between War and Peace -- The Peace of Paris.