Twilight of the Habsburgs

Twilight of the Habsburgs
Title Twilight of the Habsburgs PDF eBook
Author Alan Palmer
Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages 420
Release 1997-02-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780871136657

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Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.

Twilight of Empire

Twilight of Empire
Title Twilight of Empire PDF eBook
Author Greg King
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 350
Release 2017-11-14
Genre History
ISBN 1250083036

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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.

Twilight of the Habsburgs

Twilight of the Habsburgs
Title Twilight of the Habsburgs PDF eBook
Author Zbyněk A. B. Zeman
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 1971
Genre History
ISBN

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Emperor Francis Joseph

Emperor Francis Joseph
Title Emperor Francis Joseph PDF eBook
Author John Van der Kiste
Publisher Sutton Publishing
Pages 246
Release 2005-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780750937870

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In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century.

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Title The Fall of the House of Habsburg PDF eBook
Author Edward Crankshaw
Publisher Viking Adult
Pages 506
Release 1963
Genre Austria
ISBN

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Emperor Franz Josef's struggle to hold a polyglot nation together.

The Habsburgs

The Habsburgs
Title The Habsburgs PDF eBook
Author Paula Sutter Fichtner
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 351
Release 2014-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 1780233140

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The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such a decisive role in the fate of the continent? Paula Sutter Fichtner seeks to answer this question in this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire. Tracing the origins of the house of Habsburg to the tenth century, Fichtner identifies the principal characters in the story and explores how they were able to hold together such a culturally diverse and multiethnic state for so many centuries. She takes account of the intertwining of culture, politics, and society, revealing the strategies that enabled the dynasty’s extraordinarily long life: its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances, and cunning political maneuvering. She points out the irony that one of the crowd-pleasing performances that had enabled the Habsburg success—visiting beds of the injured—led to Ferdinand’s death and the empire’s downfall. Breathing fresh life into the history of the Habsburg reign, this accessible and authoritative history charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe.

The Habsburg Empire

The Habsburg Empire
Title The Habsburg Empire PDF eBook
Author Pieter M. Judson
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 363
Release 2016-04-25
Genre History
ISBN 0674969324

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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