Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert

The events of the Crimean War served to destroy for a significant period the existing international system in Europe and the prevailing rules by which foreign policy was conducted and peace maintained. This book aims to indicate to what extent these results were unforeseen and unintended, or anticipated and even deliberate, and to show that, whether intended or not, they flowed naturally from the kind of diplomacy practiced during the war, particularly by the Western powers. The author focuses specifically on the foreign policies and diplomacies of Austria and Britain during the war.