with the rivalries among the stats of Europe to which it gave rise; then strategic and economic factors - seen for example in the building of the Suez Canal and in the Baghdad Railway scheme - combined with the growing nationalism of the small Balkan peoples and the development of Panslavism in Russia to complicate the picture. In a masterly clarification the author surveys the development over a period of a century and a half of one of the greatest issues, or series of issues, in international relations in Europe. This book is based on an extremely wide range of printed materials, including many in Russian as well as in west European languages and thus brings together in a convenient and coherent form a great deal of important information, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible.

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