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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

Niall Ferguson - History - 1999 - 650 pages
In this landmark work of history, Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period and makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the ...
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Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History

Steven Beller - History - 1989 - 288 pages
This book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich ...
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Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780

Franz A. J. Szabo - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 404 pages
Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy (1753-1792 ...
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The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866

Geoffrey Wawro - History - 1996 - 334 pages
This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and ...
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Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815-1986

Barbara Jelavich - History - 1987 - 370 pages
An overview of the Austria's recent history written for the general reader and the student.
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture

John Lukacs - History - 1990 - 308 pages
John Lukacs, distinguished historian and native of Budapest, here offers a rich and eloquent depiction of one of Europe's great cities at its height. He provides a cultural and ...
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Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna: Christian Socialism in Power, 1897-1918

John W. Boyer - History - 1995 - 724 pages
In this sequel to Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna, John Boyer picks up the history of the Christian Social movement after founder Karl Lueger's rise to power in ...
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography

Stefan Zweig - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 494 pages
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the ...
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