If the period 1648–1815 had seen the empire “rising” and “as
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
If the period 1648–1815 had seen the empire “rising” and “asserting itself,”40 that expansion had not eliminated the difficulties under which Vienna labored as it strove to carry out a Great Power role. On the contrary, the settlement of 1815 compounded these difficulties, at least in the longer term.
chapter: The “Middle Powers”