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Transformations in the Culture of International Relations Around the Peace of Utrecht

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Transformations in the Culture of International Relations Around the Peace of Utrecht
Edited ByInken Schmidt-Voges, Ana Crespo Solana
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 6 January 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598208
Pages 242 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315598208
SubjectsHumanities, Politics & International Relations
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Schmidt-Voges, I. (Ed.), Crespo Solana, A. (Ed.). (2017). New Worlds?. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315598208

The Peace of Utrecht (1713) was perhaps the first political treaty that had a global impact. It not only ended a European-wide conflict, but also led to a cessation of hostilities on the American continent and Indian subcontinent, as well as naval warfare worldwide. More than this, however - as the chapters in this volume clearly demonstrate - the treaty marked an important step in the development of an integrated world-wide political system. By reconsidering the preconditions, negotiations and consequences of the Peace of Utrecht - rather than focusing on previous concerns with international relations and diplomacy - the contributions to this collection help embed events in a richer context of diverging networks, globalizing empires, expanding media and changing identities.

Several chapters consider the preconditions and challenges to political entities such as the British and Spanish empires and French monarchy, demonstrating that far from being nation-states these were conglomerates with diverging forms of affiliation, which developed different modes and interests to face the needs and consequences of the Utrecht negotiations. This "macrostructural" perspective is complemented by chapters that focus on "microstructural" aspects, considering the personal networks and relationships that informed day-to-day actions in Utrecht. Both perspectives are then drawn together by further contributions that examine the formation of images and discourses which were intended to identify key individuals with larger political entities and their assumed interests.

This approach, combining both broad and more narrowly focused case studies, reveals much about how the diplomatic discussions were framed with political and social contexts. In so doing the volume offers new perspectives concerning the formation of modern Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century, beyond and yet connected with diplomatic developments and global entanglements.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction: New Worlds? Transformations in the Culture of International Relations Around the Peace of Utrecht

ByINKEN SCHMIDT-VOGES AND ANA CRESPO SOLANA

part |2 pages

PART I Politics

chapter 1|16 pages

The peace settlement and the reshaping of Spain (to c. 1725)

ByCHRISTOPHER STORRS

chapter 2|21 pages

The repercussions of the treaties of Utrecht for Spanish colonial trade and the struggle to retain Spanish America

ByANA CRESPO SOLANA

chapter 3|21 pages

Continuity and change in Spanish–Dutch relations between Westphalia (1648) and Utrecht (1714)

ByMANUEL HERRERO SÁNCHEZ

chapter 4|17 pages

Disagreement over a peace agreement: The Barrier Treaty and the conditional transfer of the Southern Netherlands to Austria

ByKLAAS VAN GELDER

chapter 5|17 pages

Savoyard representatives in Utrecht: Political–aristocratic networks and the diplomatic modernisation of the state

chapter 6|16 pages

Ending a religious cold war: Confessional trans-state networks and the Peace of Utrecht

BySUGIKO NISHIKAWA

part |2 pages

PART II Perceptions

chapter 7|22 pages

Old worlds, new worlds? Contemporary reflections upon international relations ca. 1713

ByDAVID ONNEKINK

chapter 8|23 pages

Empire and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713)

BySTEVEN PINCUS

chapter 9|18 pages

The “balance of power” in British arguments over peace, 1697–1713

chapter 10|15 pages

From the warrior king to the peaceful king: Louis XIV’s public image and the Peace of Utrecht

BySOLANGE RAMEIX

chapter 11|18 pages

Diverging concepts of peace in German newspapers 1712/1713: A case study of the Hamburger Relations-Courier

ByINKEN SCHMIDT-VOGES
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