Austria category: 467 books
by Sidney Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
Belle Necropolis
Ghosts of Imperial Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume...
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Negli anni in cui si svolse l'operato del grande capitano italiano si formò la tradizione dell'esercito asburgico e in particolare della cavalleria, nella quale il reggimento di dragoni appartenuto al principe Eugenio mantenne il nome del suo colonnello fino al 1918, onore riservato a nessun altro...
Metternich and Austria
An Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
This is the first serious appraisal of Metternich's role in the Austrian Empire and beyond. Covering both domestic and international affairs, Sked presents a fresh and convincing description of Metternich's era and argues that despite his battered historical reputation, Metternich was the leading diplomat in Europe over four decades.
Escape Home
Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
"An engrossing saga, profusely illustrated and fully documented, the stuff that makes an intriguing feature film. I heartedly endorse it."
- Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director, The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives
"One of the more uplifting accounts of European émigré life that I have...
The Life of Josef Šálek
A Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The life story of Josef Šálek, as remembered by his grandson. Born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1892, Šálek's lifetime spanned both World Wars and the transformation of what is now the Czech Republic. What may have been simple small-town life became extraordinary when set against...
Twilight of Empire
The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
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...
Good Living Street
Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living...
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually...
History of World War I: The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918
From Sarajevo to the Piave and Lake Tanganyika
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
This book traces the history of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted for over a thousand years, from the reign of Charlemagne in AD 800 until AD 1806 when it was dissolved following defeat by Napoleon. It is an Empire that had no fixed boundaries and until the 16th century, when the Habsburgs settled...
The Assassination of the Archduke
Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I
In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all...
Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel
Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges...