Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. War, Diplomacy and the Rise of Savoy, 1690–1720
  • Cited by 13
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780511496950
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496950
Subjects:
Area Studies, Diplomatic and International History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Information

Book description

This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by considering the role of the Duchy of Savoy and the rise of this hitherto weak state into one of the regular members of the anti-French coalitions of the eighteenth century. Through his participation in the Nine Years War (1688–97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, acquired a reputation for unrivalled 'Machiavellian' diplomacy on the international stage. The book puts this diplomacy in context, and considers how the duke raised men and money (at home and abroad), the administrative changes forced by war, the resulting domestic pressures, and how these were dealt with.

Reviews

‘… of great interest not only to specialists but also to those interested in absolutism, modernization and the other meta-narratives currently on offer for seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Europe’.

Source: The English Historical Review

‘… a significant contribution to the much-neglected field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian history … a welcome addition to the debate on the relationship between early modern state development and war.’

Source: War in History

‘… the book makes an invaluable contribution to a growing collection of new studies of early modern Italian states.’

Source: History

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.