Austria category: 467 books
Osservanza francescana e cultura tra Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento: Italia e Ungheria a confronto
Osservanza francescana e cultura tra Quattrocento e primo Cinquecento: Italia e Ungheria a confronto
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Gli storici sono da tempo consapevoli del ruolo europeo svolto dall’Osservanza francescana tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, un fenomeno storico che travalica ampiamente i limiti delle vicende interne all’Ordine dei Minori, dalle quali pure prese orgine. Questa dimensione europea non significa,...
The Everyday Life of the Emperor
Francis Joseph and his Imperial Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Court in Vienna under Emperor Francis Joseph was not only Europe's most illustrious and refined, it was also a huge economic enterprise, serving as both home and workplace for just under 2,000 people. The author reveals multitudinous facets of Emperor Francis Joseph's court and displays them in highly...
History of the Habsburg Empire
Rise and Decline of the Great Dynasty: The Founder - Rhodolph's Election as Emperor, Religious Strife in Europe, Charles V, The Turkish Wars, The Polish War, Maria Theresa, The French Revolution & European Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious...
by John Stoye
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
"In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork and fortification...
by Carlton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection.
To...
Pannonia and Upper Moesia (Routledge Revivals)
A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Pannonia and Upper Moesia, first published1974, András Mócsy surveys the Middle Danube Provinces from the latest pre-Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Great Migrations. His primary concern is to develop a general synthesis of the archaeological and historical researches in the Danube...
Maria Theresia - Kinder, Kirche und Korsett
Die privaten Seiten einer Herrscherin
Language: German
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Maria Theresia war volksnahe Landesherrin, unerbittliche Erzieherin und Regentin, feinfühlige Ehefrau und Mutter. Abseits von Protokoll und Etikett zeigte sie sich erfreut, verärgert, gerührt, betrübt - mit Einwänden, Rücksichten, Bedenken und Zweifeln, wie sie auch uns manchmal zu schaffen...
by Sebastian Haffner
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 60,000 words)
Sebastian Haffner regarded himself as “a Prussian with a British passport.” In this overview of Prussia’s 170-year history as an independent state, he depicts Prussia’s evolution...
Thunder at Twilight
Vienna 1913/1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century.
It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission...
by Charles Darvelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
A fascinating history of one of the long vanished stations on the Great Western Railway.
Lambourn Station is no more. There is nothing left on the ground to show that this was once the thriving terminus of an independent railway line, later taken over by the Great Western Railway. The station...
by Jaap Scholten
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the darkness of the early morning of March 3, 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded onto trucks. That same day, the Romanian Workers' Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and dispossession of all large landowners....
by Chris Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is mostly about one thing: Places in Hungary. Places in the sense of what they can tell us about Hungarian history, both natural and cultural. Places in the sense of how they can help us relocate the past not just in Hungary, but most importantly within ourselves.
This book is probably best...
by Armand Praviel
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Petite-fille de Louis-Philippe roi des Français, fille du roi Léopold Ier de Belgique, Charlotte (1840-1927) aurait pu mener une vie de princesse tranquille. Elle se marie à 17 ans à Maximilien, frère cadet de l'empereur François-Joseph d'Autriche. Lorsqu'on...
Habsburgs schräge Erzherzöge
Dem Kaiser blieb auch nichts erspart
Language: German
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Erzherzog Otto taumelt nackt durch die Gänge des Hotel Sacher. Erzherzogin Elisabeth Marie fährt im Rolls-Royce zum Mai-Aufmarsch. Erzherzog Leopold Ferdinand, mit bürgerlichem Namen Leopold Wölfling, heiratet zweimal Prostituierte und Erzherzog Ludwig Salvator fährt mit seiner Dampfsegelyacht...