Ebook: The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902

The Diplomacy of Imperialism carries on a major history of European international relations which was begun by the author's European Alliances and Alignments, 1870-1890, a book which was hailed in many countries as the outstanding treatment of the subject.

This new work covers one of the most confused periods of pre-war diplomacy, a period which the conclusion of the Franco-Russian alliance established something like an equilibrium in European affairs while the rise of the spirit of imperialism brought the great powers to the brink of major crises in the Near East, in Africa and in the Far East. Many of these crises have never been adequately studied before. They are now analyzed as problems in themselves and as part of the general international picture.