Diplomatic History

Highlights of the History of International Relations

Readings in the history of diplomacy and the non-military, non-religious interactions between countries and civilizations by some of the greatest writers.

Some of the years are approximate.

Year	Title	Author(s)
1183	The Peace Of Constance Secures The Liberties Of The Lombard Cities	Ernest F. Henderson
1208	Zenith of Papal Power	Thomas F. Tout
1270	Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade	Joseph François Michaud
1314	End of the Knights Templars	Frederick C. Woodhouse\| \|Henry Hart Milman
1337	The King of England Claims Throne of France	François P. G. Guizot
1449-1492	Lorenzo de Medici and Florence’s Renaissance	Oliphant Smeaton
1520	The Field of the Cloth of Gold	John S. Brewer
1555	The Peace of Augsburg and the Abdication of Charles V	William Robertson
1772	First Partition of Poland	James Fletcher
1782	How the American Revolutionary War Ended	John M. Ludlow
1794	Poland’s Downfall	Sir Archibald Alison
1803	The Louisiana Purchase	Henry S. Randall
1814	The Treaty of Kiel	Jack Le Moine
1815	The Congress of Vienna	Henry M. Stephens
1816	The Holy Alliance – European Reaction Under Metternich	Charles Edmund Maurice
1823	The Monroe Doctrine	Alfred Thayer Mahan
1830	Revolution in Belgium	Thomas Colley Grattan
1854	Japan Reopens Relations With Outside World	Matthew C. Perry

Year	Title	Author(s)
1867	The Alaska Purchase	Charles Sumner
1864-1873	The Communist International 1864-1873	Thomas Kirkup
1877-1878	Russo-Turkish War 1877	Wilhelm Mueller
1878	The Berlin Congress of 1878	Stephen P.H. Duggan
1881	Russian Nihilism	Sergius Stepniak
1882	France Takes Vietnam	Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas
1898	Meeting at Fashoda	Winston S. Churchill
1903	The Alaskan Boundary Settlement	John W. Foster\| \|F. C. Wade\| \|Goldwin Smith
1903	USA Acquires Rights to Build the Panama Canal	A. Maurice Low\| \|Chauncey M. Depew
1908	Austria-Hungary Annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina	Emil Reich
1911	The Strangling of Persia	W. Morgan Shuster
1912	The First Balkan War	J. Ellis Barker\| \|Frederick Palmer\| \|Stephen P. Duggan
1913	The Second Balkan War	Stephen P. Duggan\| \|Capt. A.H. Trapmann
1914	Militarism Before World War I	Norman Angell
1914	Britain Prepares for World War I	Winston S. Churchill
1918	How to Handle Arabs	Lowell Thomas
1938	Poland Wants In	Jack Le Moine
	When Does a Country Begin?	Jack Le Moine

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