The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon

"The Invention of International Order is a worthwhile read for those interested in international relations, gender history, class analysis, as well as cultural studies and rhetoric all of whom may find this work useful to their own thinking."—Azadeh Ghanizadeh, Cambridge Review of International Affairs

"[A] rich and ambitious study. . . . Glenda Sluga has written an excellent book—and one that is not just excellent but also important."—Thomas Peak, Perspectives on Politics

“Wonderfully rich and nuanced. Sluga explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which novel practices of diplomacy and peacemaking in the period after Napoleon were socially and transnationally embedded, and shows how the gendered boundaries of modern international politics were affecting whose voices and views were heard.”—Andrew Hurrell, author of On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society

“An insightful account of how the modern international order was invented at the end of the Napoleonic wars.”—Naoko Shimazu, author of Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War

"Highly elegant and concise. Sluga brings to life not only the statesmen, monarchs, and diplomats who shaped the post-Napoleonic world, but also the bankers who facilitated this new order and the women who used their networks, wealth, reputations, and standing as salonnières and ambassadrices."—Beatrice de Graaf, author of Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815

"This is a pathbreaking book that will be widely read and cited. I know of no other comparable work on the important role of women intellectual influencers and ambassadrices in the development of imperial Europe's society of states after the Napoleonic wars."—Patricia Owens, author of Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt