Metternich
Title | Metternich PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Fürst von) |
Publisher | Time Out |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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"Prince Metternich was a celebrated diplomat and statesman. Throughout his glittering and successful career he sought to counter the forces unleashed by the French Revolution. He was an enemy of change, despised by republicans and feared by radicals. Metternich used his skill for diplomacy to create alliances in order to reverse republicanism and restore the legitimate monarchies of Europe to their thrones."--Back Cover.
Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1815-1829
Title | Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1815-1829 PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 686 |
Release | 2023-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368636944 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1773-1835: 1815-1829
Title | Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1773-1835: 1815-1829 PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Fürst von) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Austria |
ISBN |
Metternich
Title | Metternich PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfram Siemann |
Publisher | Belknap Press |
Pages | 929 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 067474392X |
A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace. Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized. Clemens von Metternich emerged from the horrors of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Siemann shows, committed above all to the preservation of peace. That often required him, as the Austrian Empire’s foreign minister and chancellor, to back authority. He was, as Henry Kissinger has observed, the father of realpolitik. But short of compromising on his overarching goal Metternich aimed to accommodate liberalism and nationalism as much as possible. Siemann draws on previously unexamined archives to bring this multilayered and dazzling man to life. We meet him as a tradition-conscious imperial count, an early industrial entrepreneur, an admirer of Britain’s liberal constitution, a failing reformer in a fragile multiethnic state, and a man prone to sometimes scandalous relations with glamorous women. Hailed on its German publication as a masterpiece of historical writing, Metternich will endure as an essential guide to nineteenth-century Europe, indispensable for understanding the forces of revolution, reaction, and moderation that shaped the modern world.
Memoirs of Prince Metternich, 1773-1815
Title | Memoirs of Prince Metternich, 1773-1815 PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Fürst von) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Austria |
ISBN |
Memoirs of Prince Metternich: Materials for the history of my public life, 1773-1815 (Autobiographical memoir) ; Gallery of celebrated contemporaries ; Collection of documents from the first period of Metternich's life, 1773-1815
Title | Memoirs of Prince Metternich: Materials for the history of my public life, 1773-1815 (Autobiographical memoir) ; Gallery of celebrated contemporaries ; Collection of documents from the first period of Metternich's life, 1773-1815 PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Fürst von) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Austria |
ISBN |
Memoirs of Prince Metternich
Title | Memoirs of Prince Metternich PDF eBook |
Author | Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Fürst von) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Austria |
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