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Anglo-Russian relations
Anglo-Russian Trade
Author_Janet M. Hartley
balance of power
Baron Sigismund Von Herberstein
British foreign relations
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Charles Montagu
Charles Whitworth's diplomatic career
Charles XII
diplomatic correspondence analysis
early eighteenth century
early modern diplomacy
East Indies
eighteenth century international affairs
English Merchant Community
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eq_history
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European power politics
foreign
great
Great Northern War
Great Northern War history
Hanoverian Interests
Hanoverian Ministers
King's Scholars
King’s Scholars
Navy Board
netherlands
northern
Ostend Company
papers
Quadruple Alliance
Russian Tsar Peter the Great
Secret Articles
Secretary Of State
Sir Charles Hedges
southern
Southern Netherlands
state
Successful Diplomatic Career
Swedish Fleet
Tobacco Contract
United Provinces
Viscount Bolingbroke
war
Whitworth's Paper
whitworths
Whitworth’s Paper
William III
xii
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754604808
- Weight: 531g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Ambassador to Russia, and Minister in The Hague, Berlin, Ratisbon and Cambrai. Whitworth was an acute, witty and indefatigable writer. His long and detailed dispatches and reports comment on Russian, Prussian, Austrian and Dutch domestic and foreign policy, on trading and commercial matters, on leading personalities and events, and on the diplomacy of the Great Northern War and the War of Spanish Succession. He was in Russia from 1705 to 1712 and witnessed the growing military, naval and commercial power of the state and was acutely aware of the potential threat of Russia to British interests. The period of Whitworth's diplomatic career, from 1702-1725, witnessed a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the North, and the nature, and timing, of Whitworth's postings made him uniquely qualified to chart and analyse this development. Drawing on a wide variety of manuscript sources, Dr Hartley has produced a compelling account both of Whitworth and the momentous events taking place in Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Janet M. Hartley, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
