HIS344Y1 Lecture : HIS344 sept 17 Demise of the Grand Alliance
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Historiography: three ways of looking at history: traditional or orthodox interpretation revisionist soviets. It came very early on, soon after the war ended. If you look back into history of international relations, it took considerable time and effort to destroy a grand alliance. Suffice to point to the holy alliance or the quadruple alliance after the. Napoleonic wars. it took 40 years for them to fall apart. If you look at the grand alliance, which william iii created it took 20 30 years for that to fall apart. However, now we have a grand alliance that is crucial and pivotal to save the world form tyranny and keep it in existence, yet within a year it fell apart. Another thing that is important is the role of historiography. We will come across interpretation of international affairs. Obviously no story contains exactly the same interpretation. International relations in general, especially with the cold war offered 4 versions of the causes.