The Habsburg Twilight
Author | : Sarah Gainham |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Gainham |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Palmer |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1997-02-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780871136657 |
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Author | : Greg King |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250083036 |
On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that locked room remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Drawing interviews with members of the Habsburg family and archival sources in Vienna, Greg King and Penny Wilson reconstruct this historical mystery, laying out evidence and information long ignored that conclusively refutes the romantic myth and the conspiracy stories.
Author | : Zbyněk A. B. Zeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Austria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pieter M. Judson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674969324 |
A EuropeNow Editor’s Pick A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “Pieter M. Judson’s book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.” —Tim Blanning, Wall Street Journal “This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts.” —Tony Barber, Financial Times “Spectacularly revisionist... Judson argues that...the empire was a force for progress and modernity... This is a bold and refreshing book... Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state.” —A. W. Purdue, Times Higher Education “Judson’s reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit.” —Annabelle Chapman, Prospect
Author | : Manfried Rauchensteiner |
Publisher | : Böhlau Verlag Wien |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3205795881 |
The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state.
Author | : Dominique Kirchner Reill |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674249690 |
Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by telling the story of the three-year period when the Adriatic city of Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) generated an international crisis. In 1919 the multicultural former Habsburg city was occupied by the paramilitary forces of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele D’Annunzio, who aimed to annex the territory to Italy and became an inspiration to Mussolini. Many local Italians supported the effort, nurturing a standard tale of nationalist fanaticism. However, Dominique Kirchner Reill shows that practical realities, not nationalist ideals, were in the driver’s seat. Support for annexation was largely a result of the daily frustrations of life in a “ghost state” set adrift by the fall of the empire. D’Annunzio’s ideology and proto-fascist charisma notwithstanding, what the people of Fiume wanted was prosperity, which they associated with the autonomy they had enjoyed under Habsburg sovereignty. In these twilight years between the world that was and the world that would be, many across the former empire sought to restore the familiar forms of governance that once supported them. To the extent that they turned to nation-states, it was not out of zeal for nationalist self-determination but in the hope that these states would restore the benefits of cosmopolitan empire. Against the too-smooth narrative of postwar nationalism, The Fiume Crisis demonstrates the endurance of the imperial imagination and carves out an essential place for history from below.
Author | : Zbyněk A. B. Zeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Austria |
ISBN | : 9780070727991 |
Author | : Nick Groom |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300240813 |
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
Author | : Chip Wagar |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0761870784 |
A biography of Francis I, the last Holy Roman Emperor and first Emperor of Austria, as well as a history of his times. The first biography in English of this mysterious, complex, and powerful personality whom Metternich and Radetzky called their master.