Featuring a wide range of cases from across modern world history, this is a comprehensive account of one of the world's most important processes.

This book shows how the political, economic, military and cultural revolutions of the nineteenth century shaped modern international relations.

With unique and novel conceptual analysis the book accurately locates both the potential and actuality of radical change in contemporary world affairs, processes usually mistakenly subsumed under the general framework of 'transitology'.

This new modern edition is based on, and corrects the first printed editions of 1660 and 1689, and contains an extensive introduction and notes designed to make this significant work accessible to both students and specialists.