Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750)

The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of ''wars of religion'' and an age of ''revolutionary wars'' - have often been characterized as a ''de-ideologized'' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this time may lack the obvious polarization between Catholic and Protestant visible in the proceedi...