The Congress of Vienna and its legacy

• List of Plates
• p. vii

• List of Maps
• p. ix

• Foreword
• p. xi

• Preface
• p. xiii

• Acknowledgements
• p. xv

• Part 1
• War

• 1
• The European State System and the Napoleonic Wars
• p. 3

• The European state system of the eighteenth century
• p. 3

• The challenge of the French Revolution
• p. 19

• The rise of Napoleon
• p. 25

• The birth of the Napoleonic Empire and the War of the Third Coalition
• p. 27

• The Napoleonic Empire at its height
• p. 31

• The plans of Czartoryski and Pitt for the reconstruction of Europe
• p. 35

• 2
• The Collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, 1812-14
• p. 43

• Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the Fourth Coalition
• p. 43

• Castlereagh's mission to the Continent
• p. 50

• The negotiations at Châtillon
• p. 54

• The Treaty of Chaumont
• p. 56

• The Bourbon restoration
• p. 58

• The first Peace of Paris
• p. 63

• Part 2
• Peace

• 3
• The Congress of Vienna, 1814-15
• p. 69

• The decision to convene a Congress
• p. 69

• Preliminary negotiations in Paris and London
• p. 70

• The characters of the statesmen
• p. 72

• Diplomatic aims on the eve of the Congress
• p. 84

• The procedural question
• p. 89

• The social life of the Congress
• p. 94

• The Polish Question and Alexander's diplomatic triumph
• p. 96

• The Saxon Question and the secret treaty of 3 January 1815
• p. 111

• Other questions at the Congress
• p. 131

• The question of a general guarantee
• p. 146

• Assessments of the settlement
• p. 149

• 4
• The Birth of the Congress System, 1815-18
• p. 158

• The Hundred Days
• p. 158

• The second Peace of Paris and the Quadruple Alliance
• p. 164

• The Holy Alliance
• p. 173

• The allied occupation of France
• p. 178

• The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
• p. 180

• Part 3
• Diplomacy

• 5
• The Alliance in Operation, 1819-20
• p. 209

• Central Europe and the Carlsbad Decrees
• p. 209

• Peterloo and the Six Acts
• p. 220

• The revolution in Spain and Castlereagh's State Paper of 5 May 1820
• p. 223

• The Neapolitan Revolution and Metternich's dilemma
• p. 231

• 6
• Rift and Reunion, 1820-22
• p. 248

• The Congress of Troppau and the Principles of Intervention
• p. 248

• The Congress of Laibach and the Piedmontese insurrection
• p. 270

• The Greek Revolution, the Hanover interview and the threat of a Russo-Turkish war
• p. 285

• 7
• The Twilight of the Congress System, 1822-23
• p. 309

• The Congress of Verona
• p. 309

• The French expedition to Spain
• p. 338

• The end of the Congress System
• p. 344

• 8
• The Legacy of the Congress System: Success or Failure?
• p. 353

• Salient characteristics of the Congress System
• p. 357

• A post-hegemonic international security regime?
• p. 360

• Why the system failed
• p. 363

• The legacy of the Congress System
• p. 369

• Chronology
• p. 380

• Dramatis Personae
• p. 384

• Notes
• p. 390

• Select Bibliography
• p. 498

• Index
• p. 515