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...

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