Vienna And Versailles

Author : Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521822629

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Vienna and Versailles by Jeroen Frans Jozef Duindam Pdf

This book brings vividly to life the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court at Paris-Versailles. Drawing on a wealth of material masterfully set in a comparative context, the book makes a unique contribution to the field of court studies. Staff, numbers, costs and hierarchies; daily routines and ceremonies; court favourites and the nature of rulership; the integrative and centripetal forces of the central courtly establishment: all are seen in a long-term, comparative perspective that highlights both the similarities and the distinctiveness of developments in France and the Habsburg lands. In the process, most conventional views of each court - and of court life in general - are challenged, and an alternative interpretation emerges. Finally, by relocating the household in the heart of the early modern state, Vienna and Versailles forces us to rethink the process of statebuilding and the notion of 'absolutism'.

Author : L.C.B. Seaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134972555

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From Vienna to Versailles by L.C.B. Seaman Pdf

This classic text examines the story of European affairs and international relations from 1850 to 1920. Authoritative and concise, it emphasizes interpretation rather than the chronological narrative of the facts.

Author : Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:71024632

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From Vienna to Versailles by Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman Pdf

Author : Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1056133839

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From Vienna to Versailles (1815-1920) by Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman Pdf

Author : L C B (Lewis Charles Berna Seaman
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013806085

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From Vienna to Versailles by L C B (Lewis Charles Berna Seaman Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Lewis C. B. Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311752143

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From Vienna to Versailles by Lewis C. B. Seaman Pdf

Author : William Morris David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Congress of Vienna
ISBN : OCLC:12297684

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Poland Under the Treaties of Vienna and Versailles by William Morris David Pdf

Author : David King
Publisher : Crown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307407368

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Vienna, 1814 by David King Pdf

“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably defeated and exiled to the small island of Elba, heads of some 216 states gathered in Vienna to begin piecing together the ruins of his toppled empire. Major questions loomed: What would be done with France? How were the newly liberated territories to be divided? What type of restitution would be offered to families of the deceased? But this unprecedented gathering of kings, dignitaries, and diplomatic leaders unfurled a seemingly endless stream of personal vendettas, long-simmering feuds, and romantic entanglements that threatened to undermine the crucial work at hand, even as their hard-fought policy decisions shaped the destiny of Europe and led to the longest sustained peace the continent would ever see. Beyond the diplomatic wrangling, however, the Congress of Vienna served as a backdrop for the most spectacular Vanity Fair of its time. Highlighted by such celebrated figures as the elegant but incredibly vain Prince Metternich of Austria, the unflappable and devious Prince Talleyrand of France, and the volatile Tsar Alexander of Russia, as well as appearances by Ludwig van Beethoven and Emilia Bigottini, the sheer star power of the Vienna congress outshone nearly everything else in the public eye. An early incarnation of the cult of celebrity, the congress devolved into a series of debauched parties that continually delayed the progress of peace, until word arrived that Napoleon had escaped, abruptly halting the revelry and shrouding the continent in panic once again. Vienna, 1814 beautifully illuminates the intricate social and political intrigue of this history-defining congress–a glorified party that seemingly valued frivolity over substance but nonetheless managed to drastically reconfigure Europe’s balance of power and usher in the modern age.

Author : Friedrich Freksa
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0365358517

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A Peace Congress of Intrigue (Vienna, 1815) by Friedrich Freksa Pdf

Excerpt from A Peace Congress of Intrigue (Vienna, 1815): A Vivid, Intimate Account of the Congress of Vienna; Composed of the Personal Memoirs of Its Important Participants Milestones - The Congress of Vienna and the Peace Conference of Versailles! Exactly 104 years of human history lies between them; and what a history! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hélène Delalex
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782080202109

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A Day with Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex Pdf

Featuring personal correspondence, lavish illustrations, and a wealth of unpublished material, this handsome slipcased volume reveals an intimate portrait of Marie Antoinette, her personal collections, and Versailles. Marie Antoinette was a mirror of her time. Never has a queen been so passionately admired and adulated, then hunted, vilified, and defamed. Spanning her tragically brief yet passionate life—from the young queen playing a shepherdess on stage, unaware of the turmoil in the capital, to France’s guillotined “martyr queen"—the author demystifies the legend, unveiling the woman behind the queen, and the wife and mother behind the sovereign. Readers will experience the palatial luxury of the queen’s Versailles by tracing Marie Antoinette’s footsteps through the royal residence, as well as discovering her voice through rare letters and encountering little-known works in her private art collection.

Author : Manfred F. Boemeke,Gerald D. Feldman,Elisabeth Gläser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521621321

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The Treaty of Versailles by Manfred F. Boemeke,Gerald D. Feldman,Elisabeth Gläser Pdf

This text scrutinizes the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the various politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the Treaty of Versailles.

Author : Helene Delalex,Alexandre Maral,Nicolas Milovanovic
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606064832

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Marie-Antoinette by Helene Delalex,Alexandre Maral,Nicolas Milovanovic Pdf

Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France’s aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country’s monarchy. The great material privileges she enjoyed and her glamorous role as an arbiter of fashion and a patron of the arts in the French court, set against her tragic death on the scaffold, still spark the popular imagination. In this gorgeously illustrated volume, the authors find a fresh and nuanced approach to Marie-Antoinette’s much-told story through the objects and locations that made up the fabric of her world. They trace the major events of her life, from her upbringing in Vienna as the archduchess of Austria, to her ascension to the French throne, to her execution at the hands of the revolutionary tribunal. The exquisite objects that populated Marie-Antoinette’s rarefied surroundings—beautiful gowns, gilt-mounted furniture, chinoiserie porcelains, and opulent tableware—are depicted. But so too are possessions representing her personal pursuits and private world, including her sewing kit, her harp, her children’s toys, and even the simple cotton chemise she wore as a condemned prisoner. The narrative is sprinkled with excerpts from her correspondence, which offer a glimpse into her personality and daily life. Visually rich and engaging, Marie-Antoinette offers a fascinating look at the multifaceted life of France’s last, ill-fated queen.

Author : Hamish Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191020001

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 by Hamish Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to 'Cultures and Power', opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.

Author : William D. Godsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192537218

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The Sinews of Habsburg Power by William D. Godsey Pdf

The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to as many as half a million in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Habsburg monarchy participated in shifting international constellations of rivalry from western Europe to the Near East and in some two dozen, partly overlapping armed conflicts. Raising forces of such magnitude constituted a central task of Habsburg government, one that ultimately required the cooperation of society and its elites. The monarchy's composite-territorial structures in the guise of the Lower Austrian Estates — a leading representative body and privileged corps — formed a vital, if changing, element underlying Habsburg international success and resilience. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy below the river Enns (the historic designation of Lower Austria) was geographically, politically, and financially a key Habsburg possession. Fiscal-military exigency induced the Estates to take part in new and evolving arrangements of power that served the purposes of government; in turn the Estates were able in previously little-understood ways and within narrowing boundaries to preserve vital interests in a changing world. The Estates survived because they were necessary, not only thanks to their increasing financial potency, but also because they offered a politically viable way of exacting ever-larger quantities of money, men, and other resources from local society. These circumstances would persist as ruling became more regularized, formalized, and homogenized, and as the very understanding of the Estates as a social and political phenomenon was evolving.

Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190659202

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The Treaty of Versailles by Michael S. Neiberg Pdf

Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a desire for peace after five years of disastrous war, demands for vengeance against Germany, the uncertain future of colonialism, and, most alarmingly, the emerging threat of Bolshevism. A century after its signing, we can look back at how those developments evolved through the twentieth century, evaluating the treaty and its consequences with unprecedented depth of perspective. The author of several award-winning books, Michael S. Neiberg provides a lucid and authoritative account of the Treaty of Versailles, explaining the enormous challenges facing those who tried to put the world back together after the global destruction of the World War I. Rather than assessing winners and losers, this compelling book analyzes the many subtle factors that influenced the treaty and the dominant, at times ambiguous role of the "Big Four" leaders?Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clémenceau of France. The Treaty of Versailles was not solely responsible for the catastrophic war that crippled Europe and the world just two decades later, but it played a critical role. As Neiberg reminds us, to understand decolonization, World War II, the Cold War, and even the complex world we inhabit today, there is no better place to begin than with World War I and the treaty that tried, and perhaps failed, to end it.