Metternich
Subtitle: Strategist and Visionary
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass., USA & London, England
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Metternich: Stratege und Visionär
Format: Harcover
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9780674245907
Copyright date: 2019
First sentence: Clemens von Metternich, the state chancellor of the old Habsburg monarchy, has given his name to an entire era: the "age of Metternich."
Description: Originally published in German as Metternich: Stratege und Visionär, eine Biografie, by Wolfgang Siemann, revised edition 2017, copyright Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, München 2016.

The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International -- Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG Wort, and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association).
Table of contents: label: A Note on the Frontispiece
pagenum: ix; label: Translator's Note
pagenum: xi; label: Preface to the English-Language Edition
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: A Life in Seven Stages
title: 1; label: Metternich's Biographers across the generations
title: 6; label: The Risks and Limitations of Srbik's Biography of Metternich
title: 10; label: 1 Origins: Family Ties and the Rise of the Metternichs
title: 20; label: The Ministerial Metternichs
title: 22; label: The Lords of Königswart
title: 23; label: The Barons of Winneburg and Beilstein
title: 30; label: The Counts as Members of the Imperial Diet
title: 34; label: The Highest Floor: The Princes in the Bel Étage
title: 39; label: 2 Metternich's Generation: Ancien Régime and Englightenment, 1773-1792
title: 45; label: Parental Home, Childhood, and Education
title: 45; label: Studies in Strasbourg and Mainz: Formation of a Political and Historical View of the World
title: 55; label: 3 A Double Crisis: Empire and Revolution, 1789-1801
title: 67; label: Fin de Siècle: The Imperial Elections of 1790 and 1791
title: 67; label: 1789: The Rupture of  the French Revolution
title: 71; label: Brussels and the Austrian Netherlands
title: 88; label: The Journey to Great Britain: The Final Piece to the Young Metternich's Political Universe
title: 110; label: Collapse and Flight in 1794
title: 131; label: A New Beginning: Vienna, Königswart, and Austerlitz
title: 145; label: Time of Transition: The Diplomat in Waiting, 1796-1801
title: 158; label: 4 Between Peace and War: Life as an Ambassador, 1801-1806
title: 169; label: Dresden, 1801-1803: The Minister at His "Observation Post"
title: 169; label: Berlin, 1803-1806: The Ambassador on the Grand Diplomatic Stage
title: 183; label: The Peace of Pressburg and the Beginning of the End for the Holy Roman Empire
title: 195; label: 5 World War" Outset and Intensification, 1806-1812
title: 201; label: Ambassador in Paris, 1806-1809: In the "Lion's Den"
title: 203; label: Ambassador on Borrowed Time and Napoleon's Captive under House Arrest
title: 242; label: The Interim Minister: Sidelined by Napoleon
title: 253; label: The Minister in Charge of the New Direction: A Defensive Strategy on Domestic Policy and Matchmaking Abroad, 1809-1810
title: 268; label: The Foreign Minister on Tour: 181 Days with Napoleon
title: 289; label: Domestic and International Consolidation, 1810-1812
title: 304; label: 6 World War: Climax and Crisis, 1813
title: 320; label: Metternich Discreetly Assembles the Forces
title: 320; label: The Tactical Path to an "Armed Mediation"
title: 331; label: Austria Joins the War: The Quadruple Alliance
title: 352; label: 7 World War: Catastrophe and Resolution, 1814
title: 374; label: The Final Battle against Napoleon and the Prefiguration of the Vienna Order
title: 374; label: Metternich's Second Voyage to England and Prefigurations for the Congress of Vienna
title: 396; label: Metternich, the War, and Violence in Politics
title: 404; label: 8 The End of an Era and a New Beginning for Europe: The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815
title: 413; label: The Initial Situation: The Experience of War and a Legal Vacuum
title: 413; label: The "Cosmopolitans": Instigating a New Law Based on Imperial Legal Orders
title: 415; label: A Master Plan? Metternich between Realpolitik, Strategy, and a Vision
title: 422; label: The Congress on the Brink: Crises Test the Principle of Balance
title: 426; label: The End of the Holy Roman Empire: The Habsburg Empire and the German Question
title: 429; label: "Germany -- United by Federal Ties": Metternich's Part in the Foundation of the German Confederation
title: 436; label: "The Congress Dances" -- Especially in Metternich's House
title: 448; label: 9 Connoisseur of Women and Head of the Entail
title: 463; label: Iconography and Historical Specificity of Love
title: 463; label: Love and Politics: At the Courts of Dresden, Berlin, and Paris
title: 476; label: Wilhelmine von Sagan and the Confusion of Feelings
title: 481; label: Dorothea von Lieven: "The Nearness of the Beloved"?
title: 488; label: Wives and Children: Family Ties and Tribulations
title: 498; label: 10 The Construction of a New Beginning: Reform and Reconstruction, 1815-1818
title: 518; label: Metternich's Ideas and Policies on the Nationality Question: The Case of Italy
title: 518; label: Journeys to Italy, a Happy, Ungovernable Country
title: 526; label: Metternich's Plan for a Reorganization of the Monarchy
title: 532; label: Habsburg and the German Confederation: An Affirmation for Metternich and Prussia, 1817-1818
title: 539; label: 11 Defensive Security Policies: Averting Threats under the Vienna System, 1815-1829
title: 546; label: Napoleon's "Hundred Days": Activating the European Security System
title: 546; label: Fault Lines in the Societies of Europe after 1815
title: 549; label: Metternich and British Security Policies, 1817-1820: Pretext or Defense against a Revolution?
title: 558; label: The Radicalization of the German NAtional Movement: The Wartburg Festival and Sand's Assassination of Kotzebue
title: 567; label: Metternich's Hesitant Reactions: The Press, the Professors, and the Students
title: 579; label: From Teplitz to Carlsbad: The Conferences on Domestic Security, 1819-1820
title: 592; label: Metternich's Suggestions for the Development and Extension of the German Federal Constitution: The Final Act of the German Confederation, May 15, 1820
title: 602; label: Terrorism and Security Policies as a European Problem: England, France, and Metternich
title: 612; label: The Double-Edged Sword of Intervention and the Concert of Europe
title: 618; label: The Concert of Europe and the Defensive Security Policies of the 1820s
title: 623; label: 12 The Economist: Metternich as Capitalist with a Social Conscience
title: 632; label: Managing Financial Crises
title: 632; label: Metternich as Agrarian Economist: Farmer, Vintner, Forester, Factory Owner and Industrial Entrepreneur
title: 650; label: 13 The Spring of Nations amid Poverty, 1830-1847
title: 658; label: The July Revolution in 1830 and Metternich's International Crisis Management
title: 658; label: The Revolution in Communication, the Spring of Nations, State Security Tolerated Revolutions after 1830
title: 672; label: From the Orient to the Rhine: The Concert of the Major Powers as a Challenge
title: 675; label: Metternich and Customs Policies
title: 677; label: 14 The Organization of Rule: Power Centers, Networks, Interests, Intrigues
title: 682; label: The Master of the State Chancellery
title: 682; label: Constrained by Emperor Franz's "Personal Regime"
title: 690; label: Emperor Franz's Legacy: A System "Headed by a Half-Wit Who Represents the Crown"
title: 692; label: Crisis Instead of Reform: Metternich versus Kolowrat
title: 698; label: Lobbyism, the Power Politics of the Imperial Family, the Estates
title: 705; label: 15 Revolution, Escape, Exile, 1848-1851
title: 716; label: Revolution 1848: "Sheet Lightning," Outbreak, and Escape
title: 716; label: Metternich's English Self: In Exile, 1848-1849
title: 726; label: Brussels 1849-1851: Metternich's Look Back at a Liberal Economic Policy That Was Not to Be
title: 732; label: 16 At the Observatory: Twilight Years in Vienna, 1851-1859
title: 737; label: Epilogue: Metternich as a Postmodern Character in Early Modernity
title: 746; label: Abbreviations
title: 757; label: Notes
title: 759; label: Bibliography
title: 839; label: Acknowledgements
title: 871; label: Illustration Credits
title: 875; label: Index
title: 879