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- Canonical title
- Competition for Empire, 1740–1763
- Original publication date
- 1940
- People/Characters
- Edward Boscawen; James Stuart Bute, Earl of Bute; Charles III, King of Spain; Duc de Choiseul; Denis Diderot; Joseph Dupleix (show all 16); André-Hercule de Fleury, Cardinal Fleury; Hume, David, 1711-1776; Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rittberg (a/k/a Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg); Louis XV, King of France; Maria Theresa; Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu; Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; William Pitt the Elder; Voltaire "François-Marie Arouet", 1694-1778; Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (a/k/a Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rittberg)
- Important places
- British India; British North America; Louisbourg, New France; India; Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada; The Netherlands (show all 7); Canada
- Important events
- Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Pragmatic Sanction (1713); War of the Austrian Succession (1740 | 1748); Seven Years' War (1755 | 1764); French and Indian War (1754 | 1763)
- Dedication
- To
Otto Hintze
Ferdinand Schevill - First words
- INTRODUCTION
Our age of specialization produces an almost incredible amount of monographic research in all fields of human knowledge.
PREFACE
It requires no very intensive scrutiny to perceive that the twenty-three years which form the subject of this volume, though punctuated by no spectacular revolution, have left a legacy which still continually attra... (show all)cts our attention.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.25 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean Age of Enlightenment 1648-1789
- LCC
- D289 .D6 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) Modern history, 1453- 1715-1789. 18th century
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