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The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history.In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Staël and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights.Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.

Diplomatic relations. --- 1815-1871 --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Abolitionism. --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alexander's. --- Archivist. --- Behalf. --- Catherine the Great. --- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. --- Citizenship. --- Civilization. --- Civilizing mission. --- Commissioner. --- Community Rule. --- Concert of Europe. --- Conflict resolution. --- Confraternity. --- Congress of Vienna. --- Containment. --- Contract A. --- Courland. --- Currency. --- Diplomacy. --- Diplomatic bag. --- Diplomatic immunity. --- Dorothea Lieven. --- Eisenach. --- Engraving. --- Escapism. --- Europe. --- European Coalition. --- Europeanism. --- Expansionism. --- Foreign Policy. --- Foreign policy. --- Foreign relations of the United Kingdom. --- Free trade. --- Gazette. --- Global governance. --- Globalization. --- Governance. --- Government. --- Grand Vizier. --- Grand duchy. --- Grand duke. --- Great power. --- Head of state. --- Hegemony. --- Holy Alliance. --- Holy Roman Empire. --- House of Bonaparte. --- Imperial Government. --- Imperialism. --- Institutional memory. --- International Labour Organization. --- International community. --- International court. --- International law. --- International relations. --- League of Nations. --- Masculinity. --- Meet the World. --- Meeting Point. --- Mercantilism. --- Military aid. --- Modernity. --- Monarchies in Europe. --- Multilateralism. --- Multitude. --- Napoleon. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Nation state. --- Nation-building. --- Opportunism. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Ottoman court. --- Ottoman dynasty. --- Pamphlet. --- Patriotism. --- Peace congress. --- Peace of Westphalia. --- Peacemaking. --- Politics. --- Politique. --- Polity. --- Prussia. --- Public interest. --- Public sphere. --- Realpolitik. --- Social order. --- Sovereignty. --- State-building. --- Stendhal. --- Subsidy. --- Suzerainty. --- Treaty of Amiens. --- Treaty. --- Ukase. --- United Nations Conference on International Organization. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- Wilhelm von Humboldt. --- World Trade Organization.