Austria Hungary category: 467 books
The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right
Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 19311939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special “privileges” they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and...
by Ernest F. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how...
A Slavic Republic of Letters
The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808–19), which are for the most...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Writing biographies (life stories) for a long time had been a male hegemonic project-writing the lives of great (white) men. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and...
by Francis Seymour Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
The historical interest that attaches to Montenegro is utterly out of proportion to the space that country occupies on the surface of the earth. With the exception of the politically insignificant republics of San Marino and Andorra, and of the principalities of Monaco and Liechtenstein, it is the...
Balkan Wars
Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499–1617
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This first English-language history of the western Balkans in the sixteenth century brings together rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key work on Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across this...
The Complete History of the Habsburg Empire: 1232-1789
Rise and Decline of the Great Dynasty: The Founder - Rhodolph's Election as Emperor, Religious Strife in Europe, Charles V, The Turkish Wars, The Polish War, Maria Theresa, The French Revolution & European Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Complete History of the Habsburg Empire: 1232-1789" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement,...
The Emperors
How Europe's Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on a visit to Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. The assassination set in motion the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and a trauma...
by Capt. Edward C. Corsi
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
“UNTIL the Treaty of Versailles the Polish nation was without a country. For more than a century the buffer-state of Central Europe had no representation on the map. Today when the area, population and resources must be recognized and her strategic position taken into account, Poland remains to...
by Karl Schimmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks is an account of the sieges by a resident of Vienna.
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe
The Geopolitical and imaginary borders between the balkans and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine empires, this region has always been considered Europe’s border between the Orient and the Occident. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing...
by Daniele Zumbo
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Gli Ungari anche conosciuti come Magiari sono un gruppo etnico di origine ugrica, inizialmente appartenenti alle sette tribù dell’Ungheria. Queste popolazioni risiedevano inizialmente nella Yugra, una terra ricca di steppe, da qui poi mossero verso Levedia e poi Etelkoz. Il testo racconta le gesta...
Muslims in Medieval Italy
The Colony at Lucera
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the history of a Muslim colony in the southern Italian city of Lucera during the Middle Ages. Author Julie Taylor draws on a vast array of primary sources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological data to provide a detailed account of the lives...
The New Space
Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870–1933), together with Josef Frank (1885–1967) and Oskar...