Frederick Schneid is Professor at High Point University, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Part I The Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe: Did the Vienna System rest on a balance of power?, Paul W. Schroeder; A political science perspective on the balance of power and the concert, Robert Jervis; Metternich, Italy and the Congress of Verona, 1821-1822, Alan Reinerman. Part II The Eastern Question: The first Serbian uprising (1804-1813) and the 19th-century origins of the Eastern Question, Lawrence P. Meriage; Nationalism in the Danubian principalities, 1800-1825 - a reconsideration, George F. Jewsbury; The Adrianople Treaty (1829) and its European implications, Nicolae Ciachir; The Greek revolution and the Anglo-French entente 1843-1844, David McLean; Mehemet Ali's expedition to the Persian Gulf, 1837-1840, J.B. Kelly. Part III The German Question: From Rheinbund to Deutscher Bund: the road to European equilibrium, Enno E. Kraehe; Violence between civilians and state authorities in the Prussian Rhineland, 1830-1846, James M. Brophy; Prussian aims for the Zollverein, 1828-1833, David T. Murphy; The German Zollverein and the European Economic Community, W.O. Henderson; Metternich and the July revolution, Fritz L. Hoffman; The war scare of 1831 and the Prussian-South German plans for the end of Austrian dominance in Germany, Robert D. Billinger Jr. Part IV Italy, Spain and Latin America: Realpolitik and conviction in the conflict between Piedmont and the Papacy during the Risorgimento, Frank J. Coppa; France and the problem of intervention in Spain, 1834-1836, Roger Bullen; Spain and the Latin American wars of independence: the free trade controversy, 1810-1820, Michael P. Costeloe; French policy in Spanish America, 1830-1848, Iwan Morgan; Name index.

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