Beatrice de Graaf seeks to uncover what happened after Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815 and how did the European continent calm down?
The First Age of Industrial Globalization by Maartje Abbenhuis
This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War.
Writing the History of Nationalism by Eric Storm & Stefan Berger
Eric Storm and Stefan Berger explore what inationalism is and how we can study it from a historical perspective.
Taming the Evil Passions: Moderation in the International Relations by Beatrice de Graaf
Beatrice de Graaf argues that new ideas on a ‘balance of power’ were a very distinctively novel way of not just theorizing, but also putting into practice ideas on collective security after 1815.
Reordering East Asian International Relations after 1860 by Seo-Hyun Park
Park looks into the foreign policy responses shown by Japan and Korea to demonstrate reflected attempts to adjust to changes in both the traditional regional order and the Europe-based but expanding “international society.”
Governing the Armenian Question by İlkay Yılmaz
Exploring the passport regulations and practices to shed light onto the relationship between state formation, Ottoman threat perceptions and the marginalisation of the Armenian community.
Friedrich von Gentz and His Wallachian Correspondents by Constantin Ardeleanu
Constantin Ardeleanu reveals the complex relationship between the freelance diplomat and his generous clients, in which Gentz acted as an unofficial diplomatic agent, confidant and tutor, thereby engaging in a process of ‘distance social teaching’ in relation to his princely correspondents, who themselves were ‘intelligence brokers’ in Europe’s southeastern periphery.
Securing Europe after Napoleon by Beatrice de Graaf, Ido de Haan and Brian Vick
Ozan Ozavci offers the first genealogical analysis of western interventionism in the Levant whilst freeing the Eastern Question from the monopoly of Great Power politics
(In-)Securities across European Empires and Beyond, Andrea Wiegeshoff & Benedikt Stuchtey
Wiegeshoff & Benedikt Stuchtey focus on the multi-layered relationship between issues of (in-)securities, European history and imperial history.
The Rhine during the Napoleonic Empire: a tourist perspective
Joep Schenk looks at the local communities’ daily life and of and the region’s tourist potential under French rule.
