HST 504 Lecture Notes - Social Darwinism, Europeanisation
11 Sep 2012
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Looming over all these transformations was the precarious international states system. century: the automobile, wireless communication, the telephone, the computer or th. Many governments in 1900 were preoccupied not only with the power they had inside their own countries but their position in the international community as well. Since the emergence of the practice of diplomacy, a formal international order, and state sovereignty. By the early 19 th century, especially after the defeat of napoleon, a hierarchy of states emerged. The top of this pyramid of hegemony was occupied by the most powerful, known as the great powers. The great powers were the movers and shakers of the international community. They exercised more weight than others politically, territorially, militarily, and/or economically. Great britain, germany (earlier prussia), austria, france and (to some extent) italy constituting the club of states with most clout, known as the concert of europe.
