Mark Jarrett holds a PhD in History from Stanford University. He has taught at Hofstra University and Stanford University.

• PREFACE PART ONE: WARTHE EUROPEAN STATE SYSTEM AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS The European State System of the Eighteenth Century The Challenge of the French Revolution The Rise of Napoleon The Birth of the Napoleonic Empire and the War of the Third Coalition The Napoleonic Empire at its Height The Plans of Czartoryski and Pitt for the Reconstruction of Europe 2. THE COLLAPSE OF THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE, 1812-1814 Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia and the Fourth Coalition Castlereagh’s Mission to the Continent Negotiations at Châtillon The Treaty of Chaumont The Bourbon Restoration The First Peace of Paris PART TWO: PEACE3. THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA, 1814-1815 The Decision to Convene a Congress Preliminary Negotiations in Paris and London The Characters of the Statesmen Diplomatic Aims on the Eve of the Congress The Procedural Question The Social Life of the Congress The Polish Question and Alexander’s Diplomatic Triumph The Saxon Question and the Secret Treaty of 3 January 1815 The Other Questions at the Congress The Question of a General Guarantee Assessments of the Settlement 4. THE BIRTH OF THE CONGRESS SYSTEM, 1815-1818 The Hundred Days The Second Peace of Paris and the Quadruple Alliance The Holy Alliance The Allied Occupation of France The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle PART THREE: DIPLOMACY5. THE ALLIANCE IN OPERATION, 1819-1820 Central Europe and the Carlsbad Decrees Peterloo and the Six Acts The Revolution in Spain and Castlereagh’s State Paper of 5 May 1820 The Neapolitan Revolution and Metternich’s Dilemma 6. RIFT AND REUNION, 1820

A meticulously researched, elegantly written and penetratingly insightful portrait of one of the key moments in the past millennium of European history.