适合人群:Historians, political scientists, students of international relations, history enthusiasts, and those interested in the political landscape of 19th-century Europe
In 1812, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined for the next hundred years. Attending were the great statesmen of the time -- the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his brave but misguided British counterpart, Lord Castlereagh; the conservative Austrian chancellor, Prince Metternich; and the idealistic but unstable tsar Alexander. Beginning with Napoleon's harrowing retreat from Moscow, the pace of the narrative holds throughout the negotiations in the Austrian capital, where the power struggle to both restore a lost world and ensure a stable future took place. Harold Nicolson's classic is narrative history at its best. "With swift pace, clear focus and a series of brilliant character sketches, this is narrative history at its best." -- The New York Times; "[The Congress of Vienna is] for all men . . . who are willing to learn, from experience of the past, lessons which apply most urgently today." -- The Atlantic Monthly.
ISBN:9780802137449
出版日期:2001-01 适合人群:Historians, political scientists, students of international relations, history enthusiasts, and those interested in the political landscape of 19th-century Europe