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An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815-1914 . By Maartje Abbenhuis . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014. Pp. viii + 297. Cloth $95.00. ISBN 978-1107037601 .
Castlereagh: A Life . By John Bew . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012. Pp. xxx + 722. Cloth $39.95. ISBN 978-0199931590 .
Der Wiener Kongress. Die neugestaltung Europas 1814-1815 . By Heinz Duchhardt . Munich : C. H. Beck , 2013. Pp. viii + 128. Paper [euro]8.95. ISBN 978-3406653810 .
Der Wiener Kongress. Diplomaten, Intrigen und Skandale . By Anna Ehrlich and Christa Bauer . Vienna : Amalthea Verlag , 2014. Pp. xii + 307. Paper [euro]24.95. ISBN 978-3850028653 .
Der Wiener Kongress 1814/15 . By Wolf D. Gruner . Stuttgart : Reclam , 2014. Pp. viii + 261. Paper [euro]8.00. ISBN 978-3150192528 .
The Congress of Vienna and Its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after Napoleon . By Mark Jarrett . London : I. B. Tauris , 2014. Pp. xi + 522. Paper £15.99. ISBN 978-1784530563 .
Der Wiener Kongress . By Reinhard Stauber . Vienna : Böhlau , 2014. Pp. vii + 285. Paper [euro]19.99. ISBN 978-3825240950 .
Metternich. Staatsman zwischen Restauration und Moderne . By Wolfram Siemann . Munich : C. H. Beck , 2010. Pp. vi + 128. Paper [euro]8.95. ISBN 978-3406587849 .
The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon . By Brian E. Vick . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014. Pp. 448. Cloth $45.00. ISBN 978-0674729711 .
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna . By Adam Zamoyski . New York : Harper Perennial , 2008. Pp. 672. Paper $19.99. ISBN 978-0060775193 .
Review Essays
Given the current challenges to European unity, in particular Russian aggression in Ukraine and dissent in the European Union over economic policy toward Greece, Europeans should remember that, two hundred years ago, they celebrated together a long-awaited peace, as their statesmen collaborated on a lasting settlement to solve territorial questions and ensure international stability. Revisiting the Congress of Vienna, however, is not an exercise in nostalgia. New works on the Congress underscore the critical international stakes in 1814 and 1815, following two decades of war and revolution,...