Discussion session on periodization

Advance reading:

Christian Windler, ‘Afterword: From Social Status to Sovereignty – Practices of Foreign Relations from the Renaissance to the Sattelzeit’, in Tracey A. Sowerby and Jan Hennings (eds.), Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c. 1410-1800 (2017), 254-66

Nadine Amser, Henrietta Harrison and Chistian Windler, ‘Introduction: Eurasian Diplomacies Around 1800: Transformation and Persistence’, International History Review, 41 (2019), 943-6

Hillard von Thiessen and André Krischer, ‘Diplomacy in a Global Early Modernity: The Ambiguity of Sovereignty’, International History Review, 41 (2019), 1100-7