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A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies; From Its Formation at the Close of the Fifteenth Century, to Its Re-Establishment Upon the Fall of Napoleon

A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies; From Its Formation at the Close of the Fifteenth Century, to Its Re-Establishment Upon the Fall of Napoleon


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: states; still they presuppose certain general points in which the common interest was concerned. Of this nature were: a. the Italian wars; b. the affairs of religion after the Reformation; c. the necessity of opposing the advances of the Turks; d. the commerce of the colonies, which was constantly increasing in value, and the commercial interests to which it gave rise.?As to all this there remains to he added, e. the facility of communication which printing and the establishment of posts afford, the Christian nations of Europe became, in a manner, morally united into one community, which was only politically divided. 6. The European political system, notwithstanding its internal variety, was, till within these few years, a system of predominant monarchies; where republics, with the exception of the United Netherlands, which alone attained to any great degree of power, were merely tolerated. This predominance of monarchies had a considerable influence on general politics. It was this, in the first place, that kept back the people from taking a more active part in public affairs. Powerful popular parties, and the disorders to which they gave rise. such as are met with in the great republics of antiquity, would have been wholly unknown, if religious dissensions had not produced effects which nearly resembled them. A second consequence of this predominance was, that the management of public affairs became more and more concentrated in the hands of princes and their ministers, and thus led to that cabinet policy which particularly characterizes the European states-system. 7. Notwithstanding this uniformity, which renders modern history so unlike the ancient, it yet displays all the variety of which it is susceptible. Every form of monarchical government?hereditary and electiv...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459019751
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 226
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 145901975X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 413 gr


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