Austria category: 467 books
Metternich's Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
Austria and the Congresses of Troppau, Laibach, and Verona
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
What Metiernich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pre-eminent figure in European politics. Metternich's...
by John Breuilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century Austria was the dominant power in the region. Prussian-led...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Wolfgang Schüssel was a dominating actor in the Austrian political arena over a period of twenty years. He served as minister of economics (1989-1995), and vice chancellor and foreign minister (1995-2000) in ÖVP/SPÖ grand coalition governments. As chairman of the ÖVP (1995-2007), he brought his...
by Florence E. Mendel
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
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In this volume I have endeavored to give my young readers a clearer and a more intimate knowledge than is usually possessed of the vast territory known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is a collection of provinces united under one ruler, and which...
Apostles of the Alps
Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought...
by George Upton
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
On the ninth of September, 1888, an unusual event occurred in the princely house of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph, the head of the ducal line of Vorpfalz-Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld, and his wife Ludovica (Louise), daughter of King Maximilian First of Bavaria and his second wife, Caroline of Baden, celebrated...
Hitler's Austria
Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations. This was no coincidence. Popular anti-Semitism was so powerful in Austria that once deportations of Jews began in...
Tu felix Austria
Neue Geschichten aus der Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2014
"Tu felix Austria nube!" Mit diesem Leitspruch und einer überaus geschickten Heiratspolitik ist es den Habsburgern über Jahrhunderte hinweg gelungen, ihre Macht zu stärken und ihr Reich zu erweitern. Dass es dabei nicht immer friedlich zuging und der Kampf um Krone und Szepter erbittert...
by John S.C. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
John S.C. Abbott was an American historian best known for his books on some of the most important people and events in history. John's brother Jacob was also a well-known author of popular historical biographies.
This is Abbott's detailed history of the Empire of Austria. A table of contents is included.
Death by Fame
A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor." - Kirkus Reviews
In 1898 Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea
Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation...
Ring of Steel
Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers
For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered...
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague,...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline. As its merchant marine dramatically grew, admirals believed that the navy should take a more...