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Metternich : strategist and visionary /
This is a major biography of Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859), perhaps the most important European politician of the first half of the nineteenth century. Metternich held the highest civilian posts in the Austrian Empire without interruption from 1809 to 1848, helped determine the shape of post-Na...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A life in seven stages
- Metternich's biographers across the generations
- The risks and limitations of Srbik's biography of Metternich
- Origins: family ties and the rise of the Metternichs
- Metternich's generation: Ancien Regime and Enlightenment, 1773-1792
- A double crisis: empire and revolution, 1789-1801
- Between peace and war: life as an ambassador, 1801-1806
- World war: outset and intensification, 1806-1812
- World war: climax and crisis, 1813
- World war: catastrophe and resolution, 1814
- The end of an era and a new beginning for Europe: the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
- The connoisseur of women and head of the entail
- The construction of a new beginning: reform and reconstruction, 1815-1818
- Defensive security policies: averting threats under the Vienna system, 1815-1829
- From imperial count to capitalist: Metternich as a patriarch with a social conscience
- The spring of nations amid poverty, 1830-1847
- The organization of rule: power centers, networks, interests, intrigues
- Revolution, escape, exile, 1848-1851
- At the observatory: twilight years in Vienna, 1851-1859.