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The Causes of the Seven Years' War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Arthur R. Ropes
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Extract

There are few branches of historical study more interesting than the investigation of the great events in international policy, and their causes—the motives which induced statesmen and sovereigns, and the nations they ruled and guided, to make war and peace and alliance. And few branches of historical study have been, till of late, so much neglected by English workers.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 4 , December 1889 , pp. 143 - 170
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1889

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page 146 note 1 Droysen's monumental History of Prussian Policy was indeed broken off at the critical point by his death; but the magnificent edition of Frederick II.'s Political Correspondence, on which Droysen's work was founded, is still appearing.