Franz Joseph - Brossura

Bled, Jean-Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0631193871 ISBN 13: 9780631193876

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1994

Riassunto

Franz-Joseph was the last of the Hapsburg emperors, the oldest dynasty in Europe. Professor Bled's highly readable and well-informed book sets Franz-Joseph's life and reign firmly in the context of the mementous changes in European society over which he presided and carried great influence.

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"Bled′s book is a judicious . . . and well balanced account . . . Clearly the best available study." Choice "The first biography to appear in English, in over 60 years, of one of the most important monarchs of the 19th century. . . Fascinating, well documented." Spectator "An admirable and unusually successful attempt to combine two genres. It is both a scholarly biography of the penultimate and longest ruling Emperor of the Hapsburg monarchy, the oldest dynasty in Europe, and a political history of the last years of Austria Hungary." The Slavonic Review

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This book, now available in paper, is a highly readable and well-informed account of Franz-Joseph's life and reign, set in the context of the momentous changes in European society over which he presided.
Franz Joseph was the last of the Habsburg emperors, the oldest dynasty in Europe. Succeeding to the imperial throne in the wake of the 1848 Revolution, he ruled over Europe's largest empire for the next sixty-eight years until the First World War brought about the dissolution of Austro-Hungary. Professor Bled begins with an account of Franz Joseph's privileged childhood as a member of the imperial family. He then examines the state of the Austro-Hungarian empire on the eve of the 1848 Revolution, and of Franz Joseph's succession at the age of eighteen. Jean-Paul Bled examines not only the key political events of the period but also daily life under Franz Joseph and life at court. This story is set against the turmoil of late nineteenth-century Europe and the conflict between two ideals and two cultures, that of the multinational state and that of the nation state.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0631193871
• ISBN 13: 9780631193876
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368