Franz Joseph and Bismarck
Author : Chester Wells Clark
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Chester Wells Clark
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Chester Wells Clark
Publisher :
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1934
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Author : Bascom Barry Hayes
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838635124
"His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle.".
Author : Otto Pflanze
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 0691007659
A biography of Bismarck which describes the political, intellectual and institutional milieu which determined his political aims and strategy.
Author : Bertita Harding
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1787204251
First published in 1937, this is German-born American author Bertita Harding’s biography of Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), Austria’s longest-reigning Emperor and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), and his wife Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898). Illustrated with superb photographs, many of them previously never seen. “Here is one of the great dramas and romances and tragedies of history. [...]Tremendously vital and human and a warmer picture of Franz Joseph than previously encountered...”—Kirkus Review
Author : Joseph Redlich
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447496531
The life of Emperor Francis Joseph can only be understood in close connection with the political transformation of Europe and the progressive shift in world power that went on during the century between the Congress of Vienna and the Treaty of Versailles. It is from that standpoint that it is here written. At the same time the specific content of this description is his human and political personality. On no other terms can any bounds be set or any form given to the vast mass of interconnected historical events covered by the period of Francis Joseph’s life and reign. Since, however, whether as man or ruler, he falls far short of being an embodiment of human greatness, it is in a somewhat limited sense only that he fills the conception of a historic personality. So comprehensive, on the other hand, is the range of countries and peoples over whom he reigned; so extensive is the period of his governance; so mighty and multifarious are the European issues influenced, and deeply influenced, by his action and his character, that, judged by the test of influence on great events, he must be said to have counted for more than any other European monarch of the nineteenth century. Compared with his, the singular and momentous career of Napoleon III is but an entr’acte in Europe. Guardian of an ancient line, inheritor and defender of rights that date far back into medieval times, natural foe of the modern struggle to transform Europe into a series of closed national states, Francis Joseph assumed and maintained for sixty years a position in the Europe that the war destroyed to which that of no other sovereign affords an analogue. What makes him all the more impressive is that there was in him, as in no other European monarch of the past century, a perfect correspondence between the man and his work. To Francis Joseph and to the Empire that came to an end in 1918 the saying certainly applies which is the veritable title deed of biographical history—History is made by men. Even in a period preoccupied as is our own with research into the development and function of ideas and of institutions, economic, social and political, history cannot omit personality, since it is the instrument through which the will of a nation or a state has to be exercised. Least of all can this be done where, as with Francis Joseph, the idea of the ruler overpowers that of the man and makes his personal individuality its servant.
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Publisher : London : E. Nash
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Karen Owens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0786476745
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph's reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.
Author : SIR HORACE RUMBOLD
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Harold Llewellyn Kirkpatrick
Publisher :
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Austro-Prussian War, 1866
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