The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859
An Episode in Diplomatic History

This 1929 text investigates the question of the political union of the principalities of Moldovia and Wallachia.

W. G. East (Author)

9781107601314, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2011

236 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.26 kg

The author investigates, from the standpoint of diplomatic and international history, a question which confronted and divided the Great Powers of Europe during the years 1855–9, namely, whether the principalities of Moldovia and Wallachia should be politically united. His attention has centred on the conflicting policies of the Powers, whose action was to determine the early destinies of Rumania, and upon the reaction of the question upon their interrelations. The work is based on numerous Foreign Office MSS, and was first published in 1929.

Preface
1. Moldavia and Wallachia before the Crimean War
2. The principalities and the Great Powers 1855–6
3. Napoleon III and union
4. The Commission and the Moldovian elections of July, 1857
5. The diplomatic rupture at Constantinople, 1857
6. The conference of Paris, 1858
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Map.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]