Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties and Alliances Available to Purchase

What we have here are two volumes containing concise summaries and, in many cases, complete verbatim texts of some 200 treaties and other international agreements which, combined with much background material, convert diplomatic documents into seminal historical records “that help to illuminate their times and to explicate their historical significance through an understanding of the circumstances in which they were created and an assessment of their impact.” Phillips and Axelrod have had the courage and great good sense to move away from the usual encyclopaedic A‐Z arrangement in favour of an historical and analytical approach, dividing their work into 13...