HIST 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: French Revolutionary Wars, Industrial Revolution
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What is a great power?= states that enjoyed preeminence. Sovereignty: no other entity can dictate what happens within the border of another state/single final authority for what happens within the border/protection of supreme authority within a border. Entity that has monopoly on the legitimate use of force in its borders/that govnt can choose what force is illegal/legal in that border. Ability to get other to do what you want to do despite being in their interest or not. Midst of upheaval because of french revolution of 1789. Widespread violence (french revolutionary war) over how the government should be. Revolutionaries attacked and conquered other countries to make them free. Napoleon ruled france (1799-1815) with policy of french revolutionaries. So horrible that everything basically was a response to this. At least a century after 1815, the goal of all the great powers was to avoid the. Showed how unpredictable war was, and leader wanted to preserve their power.
