Enlightened absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy produced some of the boldest innovations in eighteenth-century Europe, and this book uses the biographical focus to elucidate the full complexity of the decision-making processes and inner ...

Governance and Grievance touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing ...

Focussing on three different epochs (1700, 1800 and 1900), this book explores the history of music in Vienna, allowing the very different relationships between music and society that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished

Venture across every inch of this prosperous and stable central European country, from the cosmopolitan capital of Vienna--packed with cultural offerings and late-night musikcafes--to the awesome Alpine backwaters of the Tyrol or winemaking ...

The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World.

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg.

This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austro-Hungarian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War I. In following this development ...

William M. Johnston bietet anhand seiner profunden Recherche literarischer Quellen eine neue Sichtweise auf die Zeit der Doppelmonarchie und deren Nachfolgestaaten.

Nach zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen legt der Autor unter Mitarbeit von Florian Wenninger eine Darstellung fur einen breiteren Leserkreis vor: die Gesamtentwicklung bis zum "Anschluss" 1938, Akteure und Tragergruppen, ...

This volume highlights the centrality of the Jewish presence in the heart of German and Austrian culture as well as the important role German culture played in Jewish society.