These personal investigations were our way of validating our belonging to the
Habsburg monarchy, Central Europe's most significant political unit in history.
It represents a major contribution to the study of the
Habsburg Empire and statecraft more broadly."
Ultimately, it is Bach's focus on the utopian qualities of
Habsburg colonial literature that sets his study apart from the rest.
Their rigorously researched Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and The End of the
Habsburgs makes excellent use of numerous interviews with members of the
Habsburg family as well as recently released archival material on the
Habsburg dynasty in Vienna.
Their management of that fatal first year of the Great War--Conrad in Galicia, Potiorek in Serbia--effectively destroyed the professional
Habsburg army (such as it was) and made eventual defeat nearly inevitable.
What the lords had failed to realise is that, to the Galician peasants, the reformist
Habsburg Empire offered the prospect of emancipation.
Critique: Enhanced with the inclusion of a twenty-four page Bibliography, a four page listing of the contributors and their credentials, and a nine page Index, "Understanding Multiculturalism: The
Habsburg Central European Experience" is an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to college and university library collections.
The event was attended by Archduke SEindor Von
Habsburg and his wife Archduchess Herta Margarete, senior members of the
Habsburg Family and more than 200 guests.
By focusing on the policies of imperial government and their effect on the different peoples in the second-largest state in Europe, The
Habsburg Empire: A New History offers a new lens through which to view the history of the
Habsburg Monarchy.
Critique: A significant contribution to European History reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists, "Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: European Courts and Court Residences outside
Habsburg and Valois/Bourbon Territories 1500-1700" is a truly impressive compendium of articulate and exceptional contributions by a roster of articular and erudite scholars.
He then travels the
Habsburg imperial line across the Semmering Pass.
The Empress Elisabeth ("Sisi"), the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916) is now the dominant
Habsburg brand.
