Editing Peace of Utrecht (section)

==Evaluations==
The British historian [[G. M. Trevelyan]] has argued that: 
{{blockquote|That Treaty, which ushered in the stable and characteristic period of Eighteenth-Century civilization, marked the end of danger to Europe from the old French monarchy, and it marked a change of no less significance to the world at large, – the maritime, commercial and financial supremacy of Great Britain.<ref>G.M. Trevelyan, ''A shortened history of England'' (1942) p. 363</ref>}}

The British academic [[Brendan Simms]] argues that: 
{{blockquote|Britain had shaped Europe in her interests at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It soon became clear, however, that she had designed a system to deal with past threats, principally from France, rather than those of the future. The new challenges came first from Spain, which was unreconciled to the loss of its Mediterranean lands.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Brendan Simms |title=Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation |publisher= Penguin Books Limited |year=2016 |isbn=9780141983899 }}</ref>}}