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Miroslav ediv is Deputy Head of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He is the author of Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question (2013) and Crisis among the Great Powers (I.B.Tauris, 2017). He holds a PhD from Charles University, Prague.

Miroslav ediv has convincingly demonstrated that he is an expert on European diplomacy and has skilfully and persuasively demonstrated his revisionist case that Metternichs Congress System was in decline as a result of the self-seeking policies of Britain, France and the Italian city-states. I can hardly say enough in praise of the authors extensive multi-lingual research.

Robert D. Billinger, Jr, Emeritus Professor of History, Wingate University

Miroslav ediv has written a masterpiece on the subject of the search for greater security in a precarious world. Anyone interested in international politics in the period between the Congress of Vienna and World War I must read this critical revision of the mainstream view of history.

Wolfram Siemann, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemprary History, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

In this book, Miroslav ediv turns his gaze from the Ottoman Empire and Germany to Italy from 1830 to 1848. Once again with an unmatched investigation of European archives in a dazzling array of languages, ediv opens our eyes to the fact that in their hunger for originality historians have too often ignored the obvious that under a thin veneer of cooperation the statesmen of early nineteenth-century Europe continued to pursue traditional geopolitical rivalries. edivs focus is on Metternich, who emerges in this story as neither a liberal nor a reactionary but as a pragmatist as much concerned with French influence on the Italian Peninsula as with the threat of revolution. This tour-de-force will become required reading for all students of nineteenth-century Europe.

Mark Jarrett, author of The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy

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Copyright 2018 University of West Bohemia

The right of Miroslav ediv to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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References to websites were correct at the time of writing.

This book was written as part of the project Metternich, Italy and the European States System 18301848 financed by the Czech Science Foundation (grant No. GA15-04973S).

The publication underwent a review process and was approved by the editorial board of I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd.

International Library of Historical Studies 114

ISBN: 978 1 78453 852 1

eISBN: 978 1 78672 403 8

ePDF: 978 1 78673 403 7

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Maps

. Europe, 1840

. Italy, 1843

Table

. The aggressions and wars within the congress system

Plate Section

All images in the public domain, except where stated.

Prince Clemens Wenzel Lothar Nepomuk von Metternich-Winneburg, the Austrian chancellor

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, the British foreign secretary

Louis Philippe, the king of France

Casimir Prier, the French prime minister

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, the French foreign minister

Adolphe Thiers, the French prime minister

Charles Albert, the king of Sardinia, commanding his army against Austria

Ferdinand II, the king of the Two Sicilies

Leopold II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany

Pope Pius IX

Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein, the Austrian envoy in Turin

Felix zu Schwarzenberg, the Austrian envoy in Turin and Naples

Map of Ferrara 1 (copyright Austrian States Archives, Vienna)

Map of Ferrara 2

Map of the territorial exchanges between Tuscany, Modena and Parma (the Fivizzano Affair)

List of Abbreviations

AB	Archivio Borbone
ADA	Archives diplomatiques et africaines, Brussels
AMAE	Archives du Ministre des affaires trangres, Paris
ASF	Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Florence
ASN	Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Naples
AST	Archivio di Stato di Torino, Turin
ASV	Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Vatican City
AVPRI	Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Imperii, Moscow
BAR	Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, Bern
BHStA	Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich
BuZa	Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
CP	Correspondance politique/Correspondances politiques
DUA	Departementet for de Udenlandske Anliggender
FO	Foreign Office
GC	General Correspondence
GStA PK	Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
HA	Hauptabteilung
HHStA	Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna
LM	Lettere ministri
MA	Ministerium des uern
MAE	Ministero Affari Esteri
MdA	Ministerium des Auswrtigen
NA	Nrodn archiv, Prague
NL-HaNA	Nationaal Archief, The Hague
PG	Prask gubernium, tajn 18191848
PP	Palmerston Papers
RA	Riksarkivet, Stockholm
RA C-A	Rodinn archiv Clary-Aldringen
RAM-AC	Rodinn archiv Metternich, Acta Clementina
RGA

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