The precarious balance
four centuries if the European power struggle
[1st. American ed.]
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Author
Publication
1962 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5822677M
- OCLC Control Number1014227
- OCLC Control Numberprecariousbalan00dehi
- Library of Congress Control Number61009235
Classifications
- DDC327
- LCCJX1318 .D42
Description
"In this book, Professor Dehio surveys the four and a half centuries that lie between Charles VIII's invasion of Italy and the end of the Second World War, and contrasts the drive for hegemony by successive aggressors (Spanish, French, German) with the opposing principle of balance which repeatedly called coalitions into being to save the continent from becoming subjected to a single political will. This pattern in Europe's history has become obsolete because as Professor Dehio shows, the states of Europe found it more and more difficult to thwart the ambitions of a Kaiser or a Hitler without calling upon outside help, so that by now power in Europe has passed from its own people to the greater peripheral empires."--From book jacket.
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