Autor: Derek Mckay

In this first biography in English for fifty years, Derek Mc Kay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened’ Frederick the Great. Instead, he roots h …

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. …

The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. …

In this first biography in English for fifty years, Derek Mc Kay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened’ Frederick the Great. Instead, he roots h …