As Richard Bassett’s superb book For God and Kaiser shows, Austria’s army expressed the idea that dynastic, cultural and economic relations were more important than national identity. Richard Bassett, ...
The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans – from the Perspectives of New Imperial History (2022), pp. 422-444 (23 pages) In this essay, I situate the Habsburg ...
On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...
Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...
From the 13th century till the end of World War I, a Habsburg ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital city. For a couple of centuries, another branch of the family ruled the ...
BERLIN — Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe. The oldest son of ...
If ever there was a manual on 1) how not to conduct foreign diplomacy; 2) how not to staff, equip, and train an army for modern warfare; 3) how not to liaise with a foreign ally; 4) how not to ...
History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday on MSN
Exploring the Habsburg legacy of inbreeding
The Habsburgs, a notable European royal family, ruled Spain from 1506 to 1700 and held the Holy Roman Empire from 1452 until 1806. Famous for their practice of inbreeding, they often married within ...
(Reuters) - Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, the eldest son of the last Austrian emperor, died at his home in Germany on Monday. Here are some facts about Otto and his family: * Archduke Otto von Habsburg, ...
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