Austria Hungary category: 467 books
The Limits of Loyalty
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by...
Embracing Democracy
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural,...
The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random...
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
The Doctor Who Dared
The Story of Henry Price MD Berlin; MB, BS BRISBANE
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1953 the name of Dr Henry Price was catapulted across the headlines of Australian newspapers. A post World War II German - Jewish immigrant, he made legal and medical history by taking to court eleven Australian doctors on charges of defamation, conspiracy and libel.The case, heard in the...
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...