Date of Award

4-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Herbert Rice

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

Poland's impatience during the period of her decline had made her the tool of foreign powers, a pawn in the game of European diplomacy. The part that Russia played in the Seven Years Nar and the War of the Polish Succession made her the predominant power in Poland. Empress Catherine the Second of Russia knew how to make the most of that position. Of great ability and boundless ambition, it was her dream, by the conquest of Poland, Sweden and Turkey, to make of the Baltic and Black Seas Russian lakes. The Seven Years War, she thought, had put the possibility of realizing it in her hand. That war had established the claims of Russia and Prussia to rank as great powers, equal to the older states of France, Austria and England.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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