INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF MAPS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
6. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii
7. PART ONE. Historical Writings
8. INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE 3
9. 1. "Some Comments on the War of the Spanish Succession after Reading the Letters of Madame de Maintenon to the Princess des Ursins" (1826 or later) 15
10. 2. Observations on the Wars of the Austrian Succession" (early 1820s) 19
11. 3. From Observations on Prussia in Her Great Catastrophe (1823-1825) 30
12. 4. "On the Life and Character of Scharnhorst" (1817) 85
13. 5. From The Campaign of 1812 in Russia (1823-1825) 110
14. 6. From "Strategic Critique of the Campaign of 1814 in France" (early 1820s) 205
15. PART TWO. Political Writings
16. INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 223
17. 7. Notes on History and Politics (1803-1807) 237
18. 8. "The Germans and the French" (1807) 250
19. 9. Notes on History and Politics (1807-1809) 263
20. 10. Letter to Fichte (1809) 279
21. 11. From the "Political Declaration" (1812) 285
22. 12. On the German Federal Army (1818) 304
23. 13. "Our Military Institutions" (1819) In 313
24. 14. "On the Political Advantages and Disavantages of the Prussian Landwehr'' (1819) 329
25. 15. "Agitation" (early 1820s) 335
26. 16. 'Europe since the Polish Partitions' (1831) 369
27. 17. "On the Basic Question of Germany's Existence" (1831) 377
28. Index 385