Browning provides a highly readable, coherent narrative of a complex period which fundamentally shaped the European state system. He explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents--Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain--and links diplomatic and military events to the political and social context from which they arose. Maps. nReed S. Browning explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents-Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain-and links diplomatic and military events to the political and social context from which they arose.