Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century

by Karl Marx and Eleanor Marx Aveling

Book Overview

In the 1850s, while studying the foreign policies of European states and endeavouring to disclose the inner springs of these policies, Marx often turned to the history of diplomacy. Working at the British Museum, he discovered, in the collection of an English historian and writer, William Coxe, a mass of eighteenth-century documents, including letters from English ambassadors in St. Petersburg. This find served as an immediate stimulus for writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530408954
• ISBN13: 9781530408955
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"