The German Policy of Revolutionary France. Volume 1 / Sydney Seymour Biro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biro, S. S. (Sydney Seymour), author.

Series:

The German Policy of Revolutionary France ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatie.

Französische Revolution.

Geschichte Europas.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

Germany--History--1740-1806.

Local Subjects:

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

Germany--History--1740-1806.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.): 11 Ktn.

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a masterpiece of scholarship, and the only comprehensive work on its subject in any language. It will prove indispensable for all students of Franco-German relations during the Revolutionary period—and since.Sydney Biro has systematically investigated every available source. With the mass of new material coördinated and interpreted in the light of modern scholarship, he is able to guide the reader through the labyrinth of fact and fancy which surround the main issues. The reader will admire Biro's placing of thesis and antithesis, both in internal policies of France, and in foreign policies, in such a way that the narrative never flags. Fact is added to fact until each point is demonstrated, and then the story focuses on the next aspect of the subject.French diplomacy during the years in question was colored by France's yearning for the Rhine frontier. Biro begins his work with a discussion of how the question of the Rhine frontier originated. He analyzes completely every aspect of the problem during the five years concerned, and he shows how the Rhine problem has always affected Franco-German relations. Throughout he is concerned with the economic, moral, and political considerations as well as the military ones.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Special Acknowledgment

PREFACE

CONTENTS

MAPS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE. The Convention Valmy and Basel

I. THE SETTING

II. THE EARLY REVOLUTION AND THE RHINELAND

III. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS UNDER DANTON

IV. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS UNDER ROBESPIERRE

V. HAMBURG DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE WAR

VI. THE EARLY THERMIDORIANS AND GERMANY

VII. THE EARLY THERMIDORIANS AND THE LEFT BANK

VIII. THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN TREATY OF BASEL, APRIL 5, 1795

IX. THE TREATY OF BASEL - Continued

X. THE NEUTRALITY OF NORTHERN GERMANY AND THE QUESTION OF THE LEFT BANK

XI. FRANCE AND HESSE-CASSEL MAKE PEACE, AUGUST 28, 1795

XII. THE WAR AND THE LINE OF DEMARCATION

XIII. FRANCE, PRUSSIA, AND THE PEACE OF GERMANY

XIV. THE LEFT BANK AFTER THE TREATY OF BASEL

XV. THE LATE THERMIDORIANS AND AUSTRIA

XVI. CONCLUDING REMARKS - CONVENTION

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-73449-1

OCLC:

979880920