Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.
v. 2. The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.
“Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial sovereignty.”—Outlook.
“Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L. Burr.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 617. Ap. ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D. Adams.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 426. Mr. ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author keeps fairly close to international interests.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 380w. (Review of v. 2.) |