TY - JOUR
AU - Segel, Edward B.
AB - Reviews of Books cant documents have been selected to fill the 1142 tedious narrative of Crimean War diplomacy pages of this two-volume subseries. Most of the bound between general reflections that are more contents are correspondence of the cardinals secre­ speculative, certainly more arguable, and not par­ taries of state, Giovanni Soglia Ceroni and Giac­ ticularly well integrated or even always consistent omo Antonelli, with their Paris nuncio, Raffaele with the main body of the work. The aim of Profes­ Fornari; but a half dozen of the documents are sor Schroeder's narrative is frankly revisionist, but letters between Pius IX and the French heads of in a conservative direction. His goal is to rehabili­ state, Louis-Eugene Cavaignac and Louis N apo­ tate Austrian policy and its director, Count Buol­ leon Bonaparte. The importance of these docu­ representative of a conservative, defensive, Eu­ ments can be seen by the topics they cover: the ropean-oriented attempt first to prevent the war French February revolution, the Italian revolu­ and then to end it with a speedy and stable settle­ tions and reforms of 1848 and 1849, the French ment-all within the framework of the European June insurrection of 1848, the French legislative 
TI - Paul W. Schroeder. Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1972. Pp. xx, 544. $19.50
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/81.2.378
DA - 1976-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/paul-w-schroeder-austria-great-britain-and-the-crimean-war-the-QWe219cDzL
SP - 378
EP - 379
VL - 81
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -