Brian E. Vick is Associate Professor of History at Emory University.
The public culture of diplomacy is the central focus of this
valuable work on the Congress of Vienna… This is a thoughtful and
significant study that will be of wide-ranging importance for our
understanding of early 19th-century Europe.
*Times Higher Education*
Vick sets out to explore the congress as a public event and to
trace its path to consensus. He shows that it involved more than
cynical negotiations behind closed doors.
*Wall Street Journal*
Vick’s serious, thoroughly researched reappraisal…acts as a healthy
corrective to emotion-driven detractors of the Congress.
*Washington Times*
An impressive book that will challenge traditional accounts of the
Congress of Vienna. Vick’s approach is original, his writing is
lucid and elegant, and his arguments are cogent and persuasive. By
focusing on the political culture of the Congress—from public
festivals to the role of women—he has reinvigorated the study of
one of the great milestones of European diplomatic history.
*Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge*
A new and intriguing interpretation of one of the major events of
nineteenth-century Europe. Vick expands and transforms our view of
the Congress of Vienna and, more broadly, of the history of
European diplomacy. Written with both clarity and grace, this book
will be read by all historians of modern Europe.
*Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri*
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