Metternich : : Strategist and Visionary / / Wolfram Siemann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Siemann, Wolfram,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (928 p.)

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Known as a conservative and an uncompromising practitioner of realpolitik, in fact Metternich accommodated new ideas of liberalism and nationalism insofar as they served the goal of peace. And he promoted reform at home.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Frontispiece -- Translator’s Note -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Origins: Family Ties and the Rise of the Metternichs -- 2 Metternich’s Generation: Ancien Régime and Enlightenment, 1773–1792 -- 3 A Double Crisis: Empire and Revolution, 1789–1801 -- 4 Between Peace and War: Life as an Ambassador, 1801–1806 -- 5 World War: Outset and Intensification, 1806–1812 -- 6 World War: Climax and Crisis, 1813 -- 7 World War: Catastrophe and Resolution, 1814 -- 8 The End of an Era and a New Beginning for Europe: The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815 -- 9 Connoisseur of Women and Head of the Entail -- 10 The Construction of a New Beginning: Reform and Reconstruction, 1815–1818 -- 11 Defensive Security Policies: Averting Threats under the Vienna System, 1815–1829 -- 12 The Economist: Metternich as a Capitalist with a Social Conscience -- 13 The Spring of Nations amid Poverty, 1830–1847 -- 14 The Organization of Rule: Power Centers, Networks, Interests, Intrigues -- 15 Revolution, Escape, Exile, 1848–1851 -- 16 At the Observatory: Twilight Years in Vienna, 1851–1859 -- Epilogue: Metternich as a Postmodern Character in Early Modernity -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index