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  • Sons and Heirs

    Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Heidi Mehrkens, Frank Lorenz Müller ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Heidi Mehrkens, Frank Lorenz Müller ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in order to enhance the communication of monarchies with their audiences during the nineteenth-century. How we perceive royals and their dynasties today – as families, as celebrities, as charitable figureheads of society or as superfluous relics of a bygone age – has deep roots ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Habsburgs

    Dynasty, Culture and Politics

    by Paula Sutter Fichtner ...
    On 28 June 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg-Lorraine-Este was shot dead. Known as the moment that sparked off the First World War, this incident also initiated another, lesser-known story: the beginning of the end of Habsburg rule, which came four years later. In this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire, Paula Sutter Fichtner ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450 - 1919

    by M.S. Anderson ...
    Though international relations and the rise and fall of European states are widely studied, little is available to students and non-specialists on the origins, development and operation of the diplomatic system through which these relations were conducted and regulated. Similarly neglected are the larger ideas and aspirations of international diplomacy that gradually emerged from its immediate ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to European History
    A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE“This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful introductory surveys… All specialists on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume.”History, The Journal of the Historical AssociationThis Companion contains 31 essays by leading ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • The Limits of Loyalty

    Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

    Edited by Laurence Cole, Daniel Unowsky ...
    Series Book 9 - Austrian and Habsburg Studies
    The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Writing National Histories

    Western Europe Since 1800

    Edited by Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan, Kevin Passmore ...
    This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of: * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France * unity and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Joseph II

    by T C W Blanning ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the "Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • 1848

    The Year of Revolutions

    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Political History
    Europe was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled back by conservative reaction. Though widely perceived as a failure, the revolution ended the vestiges of feudalism, broadened civil society and strengthened the state prior to the rapid ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Strategy Before Clausewitz

    Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830

    by Beatrice Heuser ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies featured in this book show that strategic thinking did indeed exist before the last century, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800

    Edited by Tracey A. Sowerby, Jan Hennings ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history. Divided into three parts, it provides an examination of diplomatic culture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century and presents the development of diplomatic practices as more complex, multifarious and globally ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Royal Heirs

    Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    by Frank Lorenz Müller ...
    Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic change and revolutionary upheaval, Europe's monarchies experienced an unexpected late flowering. Royal Heirs focuses on the roles and personalities of the heirs to the throne from more than a dozen different dynasties that ruled the continent between the French Revolution and the end of the First ... Read more

    $24.59 USD