The Battle of Torgau was a pivotal conflict between two of the most powerful European states of the time - the Kingdom of ...

Can we learn anything from the Habsburg Monarchy? A few broad principles of Habsburg strategic statecraft stand out as potentially relevant in any era. Excerpted ...

Professor Christopher Clark describes the Battle of Rossbach as "Frederick the Great's single most impressive victory." Whereas at the Battle of Kolin, everything went wrong for Prussia, at Rossbach ...

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 ...

In this work, Dr. Mitchell, a veteran policy analyst who is currently Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, takes a look at the “Habsburg Puzzle”. That is, the success of the ...

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 ...

Richard Bassett, For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 616 pp., $45.00. THE REPUTATION of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian ...

In the pre-war system of Europe the question of the Hapsburg Empire was hardly less complicated or less pressing than the so-called Eastern Question, though somehow it never aroused the same general ...

Anthony Alofsin observes that his controlling metaphor in When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 (University of Chicago Press), has a long ...

During the 1940s Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, Viennese exiles all, offered a robust critique of ...

If you were to travel to the early 1800s and strike up a conversation with a European scientist about climate, they would begin by asking why you hadn’t read your Aristotle. First sketched by the ...

Derided as the “prison of nations,” the sprawling, multiethnic state was in fact surprisingly progressive. By Paul Miller-Melamed and Claire Morelon Dr. Miller-Melamed is an associate professor of ...