Publisher's Synopsis
The War of the Spanish Succession was an early-18th-century European war, triggered by the death in November 1700 of the childless Charles II of Spain. It established the principle that dynastic rights were secondary to maintaining the balance of power between different countries.
Spanish Succession
1.1 Partition treaties
1.2 Prelude to war
1.3 General strategic drivers
1.4 Specific objectives
1.5 Dutch Republic
1.6 Austria Holy Roman Empire
1.7 France
Chapter 2: Military campaigns 1701-170
2.1 Low Countries, Rhine and Danube
2.2 Spain and Portugal
2.3 War beyond Europe and related conflicts
Chapter 3: No peace without Spain
3.1 Diplomacy
3.2 Negotiations
3.3 Peace of Utrecht
3.4 Treaties of Rastatt and Baden
Chapter 4: Aftermath
Chapter 5: Balance of power
5.1 England
5.2 power theory and implications
5.3 Realism and balancing
5.4 Balancing versus bandwagoning
Chapter 6: Chain ganging
6.1 Buck passing and bloodletting
6.2 Offensive and defensive realism
6.3 Offensive realism
6.4 Balance of threat
6.5 Soft balancing
6.6 Preponderance of power
Chapter 7: Battle of Malplaquet
7.1 Battle
