Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...
In 1914, the Habsburg empire’s fatal combination of belligerence and weakness triggered World War I and, four years later, the empire’s own dissolution. This graceful account of Habsburg diplomacy ...
Can we learn anything from the Habsburg Monarchy? A few broad principles of Habsburg strategic statecraft stand out as potentially relevant in any era. Excerpted ...
As Richard Bassett’s superb book For God and Kaiser shows, Austria’s army expressed the idea that dynastic, cultural and economic relations were more important than national identity. Richard Bassett, ...
On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...
‘When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933'
Anthony Alofsin observes that his controlling metaphor in When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 (University of Chicago Press), has a long ...
On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at the end of the First World ...
This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. A woman freezes at the sight of white ...
In this work, Dr. Mitchell, a veteran policy analyst who is currently Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, takes a look at the “Habsburg Puzzle”. That is, the success of the ...
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