The Decline of the Congress System

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the ''Congress System'' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal Congress System that the period has often been referred to as the ''Age of Metternich''.

In this book, Miroslav Šedivý analyses Metternich''s policy towards the pre-united Italian states from 1830 to 1848. W...