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Death by Fame

A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria

By: Andrew Sinclair

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Death by Fame

A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria

By: Andrew Sinclair

A biography of the Empress of Austria—a tale of rebellion, scandal, and murder that paints a vivid, tragic picture of nineteenth-century European royalty. In 1898, anarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on Lake Geneva as she prepared to board a steamer from the Mont Blanc pier. Her life had been one of both profound sadness and inspiring perseverance, and in its course she set the style for the royal rebels who would follow her, including Diana, Princess of Wales. While still a child, Elisabeth was married to the Hapsburg prince Franz Josef, heir to the Austrian Empire. She gave him three children, one of whom, Crown Prince Rudolf, would later commit suicide at Mayerling. Finding the atmosphere of the Austro-Hungarian court stifling, the increasingly erratic empress traveled incessantly. Abandoning her husband to the attentions of the Viennese comic actress Katharina Schratt, Elisabeth went on errands of mercy to the docks and slums of London and Liverpool, Barcelona and Naples, Smyrna and Marseilles. She was the despair of local police, who could not protect her, even though she wore disguises. She supported independence movements in Ireland, where she hunted superbly alongside her close companion, the English cavalryman “Bay” Middleton, and also in Hungary, an integral part of her husband’s deteriorating empire. When Lucheni assassinated the empress, he killed the most alluring royal figure of the Victorian age. But fame was her real executioner. Her celebrity had led to her death. Elisabeth had been driven into loneliness until she had lost all sense of reality—pursuing a desperate liberty that a confined marriage would never allow her. This biography tells her colorful, tragic, fascinating story. “A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor.” —Kirkus Reviews

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1250100879

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King Leopold's Ghostwriter

The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century

By: Andrew Fitzmaurice

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King Leopold's Ghostwriter

The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century

By: Andrew Fitzmaurice

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss’s life was defined by two events that threatened to undermine the order that he had so stoutly defended: a notorious social scandal and the creation of the Congo Free State. In King Leopold’s Ghostwriter, Andrew Fitzmaurice tells the incredible story of a man who, driven by personal events that transformed him from a reactionary to a reformer, rewrote and liberalised international law—yet did so in service of the most brutal regime of the colonial era. In an elaborate deception, Twiss and Pharaïlde van Lynseele, a Belgian prostitute, sought to reinvent her as a woman of suitably noble birth to be his wife. Their subterfuge collapsed when another former client publicly denounced van Lynseele. Disgraced, Twiss resigned his offices and the couple fled to Switzerland. But this failure set the stage for a second, successful act of re-creation. Twiss found new employment as the intellectual driving force of King Leopold of Belgium’s efforts to have the Congo recognised as a new state under his personal authority. Drawing on extensive new archival research, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter recounts Twiss’s story as never before, including how his creation of a new legal personhood for the Congo was intimately related to the earlier invention of a new legal personhood for his wife. Combining gripping biography and penetrating intellectual history, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter uncovers a dramatic, ambiguous life that has had lasting influence on international law.

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Princeton University Press

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0691241074

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The Realm of St Stephen

A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526

By: Pal Engal,Pal Engel,Andrew Ayton,Pál Engel

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The Realm of St Stephen

A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526

By: Pal Engal,Pal Engel,Andrew Ayton,Pál Engel

Now recognised as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. Pal Engel traces the establishment of the medieval kingdom of Hungary from its conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526. He shows the development of the dominant Magyars who, upon inheriting an almost empty land, absorbed the remaining Slavic peoples into their culture after the original communities had largely disappeared.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857716212

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A Clash of Thrones

The Power-crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe

By: Andrew Rawson

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A Clash of Thrones

The Power-crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe

By: Andrew Rawson

Medieval Europe is a dark and dangerous place. In 1054 the Church tears itself in two, setting the scene for nearly 500 years of turmoil. Empires will collide and dynasties will rise and fall; marriages will be made and alliances broken. It is a place where love clashes with ambition and violence rules – enemies are blinded, rivals are murdered and heretics are burnt at the stake. As the Black Death sweeps the continent and the Mongol hordes threaten its borders, can the kings of the old world survive the dawn of a new era?

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The History Press

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0750966785

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The Revolutions of Europe; Being an Historical View of the European Nations from the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West to the Abdication of Napoleon

By: Christopher W. Koch,Andrew Crichton

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The Revolutions of Europe; Being an Historical View of the European Nations from the Subversion of the Roman Empire in the West to the Abdication of Napoleon

By: Christopher W. Koch,Andrew Crichton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368757415

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Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Vol. III

By: Andrew Troeger,John Parker

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Catalogue of the library of the Peabody institute of the city of Baltimore ...

Vol. III

By: Andrew Troeger,John Parker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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338530718X

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The Danube

A Cultural History

By: Andrew Beattie

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The Danube

A Cultural History

By: Andrew Beattie

A detailed history of the Danube river.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199768358

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Ecclesiastical Constitutions

By: Andrew I, King of Hungary,D.P. Curtin

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Ecclesiastical Constitutions

By: Andrew I, King of Hungary,D.P. Curtin

This is a short volume of the ecclesiastical laws and internal state dealings under the reign of the Hungarian king, Andrew I. It deals with some of the devastation that transpired from Russian tribes who damage villages and churches on the eastern frontier commonly called in the text as "Scythians".

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Dalcassian Press

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Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620

By: Andrew Pettegree

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Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620

By: Andrew Pettegree

Calvinism was the most dynamic and disruptive religious force of the later sixteenth century. Its emergence on the international scene shattered the precarious equilibrium established in the first generation of the Reformation, and precipitated three generations of religious warfare. This collection of essays probes different aspects of this complex phenomenon at a local level. Contributors present the results of their detailed work on societies as diverse as France, Germany, Highland Scotland and Hungary. Among wider themes approached are the impact of Calvin's writings, Calvinism in higher education, the contrasting fates of reformed preachers in town and country, Calvinist discipline and apocalyptic thought, and the shadowy affinity of merchants and scholars who formed a critical part of the 'Calvinist International'.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521574528

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9780521574525

Crusading and the Crusader States

By: Andrew Jotischky

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Crusading and the Crusader States

By: Andrew Jotischky

Crusading as a subject has expanded in recent years to include new fields of enquiry. This book examines how crusading historiography includes new areas and new definitions, focusing on two fundamental issues in current writing: why people went on crusades and what forms the western settlement in the Near East took. Crusading and the Crusader States explains how the idea of holy wars came into being and why they took the form that they did – a clash between western and Islamic societies that dominated the Middle Ages.

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Routledge

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1317876024

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The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945

By: Andrew C. Janos

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The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945

By: Andrew C. Janos

Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the religious and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter in the nineteenth and early twenties centuries? The answer, the author argues, lies not with cultural idiosyncracies or historical accident, but with the internal dynamics of the modern world system that stimulated aspirations not easily realizable within the confines of backward economics in peripheral national states. The author develops his theme by examining a century of Hungarian economic, social, and political history. During the period under consideration, the country witnessed attempts to transplant liberal institutions from the West, the corruption of these institutions into a "neo-corporatist" bureaucratic state, and finally, the rise of diverse Left and Right radical movements as much in protest against this institutional corruption as against the prevailing global division of labor and economic inequality. Pointing to significant analogies between the Hungarian past and the plight of the countries of the Third World today, this work should be of interest not only to the specialist on East European politics, but also to students of development, dependency, and center-periphery relations in the contemporary world.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843022

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9781400843022

Places, People and Cycles in my Life

By: Andrew Vecsey

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Places, People and Cycles in my Life

By: Andrew Vecsey

I was born in Hungary. When I was 7 years old, my parents fled Hungary and went to Montreal, Canada where I was brought up and raised. I worked in Ontario and Calgary for 6 years as an electrical Engineer. I traveled overland to Central and South America and ended up in Chile where I started a family. My wife died and I was forced to go back to Canada with my new born son. In search of a family, I found one in Switzerland. The marriage lasted 9 years and after that I found myself with a job that involved traveling to exotic places for 9 more years. After a forced retirement, I am now hopefully settled down and I am writing. This book is a story of my life, its cycles of places and people and stories of adventures along the way that I want to share.

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Lulu.com

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1365084655

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9781365084652

The Enemy at the Gate

Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

By: Andrew Wheatcroft

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The Enemy at the Gate

Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

By: Andrew Wheatcroft

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the populace with arrows during the battle for Christianity's bulwark. Each side was sustained by the hatred of its age-old enemy, certain that victory would be won by the grace of God. The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Andrew Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations.

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Basic Books

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0786744545

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9780786744541

Charter of the Abbey of Tihany

By: Andrew I, King of Hungary,D.P. Curtin

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Charter of the Abbey of Tihany

By: Andrew I, King of Hungary,D.P. Curtin

The Charter of the Abbey of Tihany is a royal document known for including the oldest written words in the Hungarian language. The document is dated to 1055 AD, lists the lands the king donated to the newly founded Tihany Abbey. The document is largely composed in Latin and contains small Hungarian phrase words. It represents one of the earliest documents from the kingdom of Hungary.

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Dalcassian Press

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The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By: Andrew L. Thomas

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The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg

Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World

By: Andrew L. Thomas

Illuminates the impact of Jews and Turks on the life and work of influential reformer Andreas Osiander

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University of Michigan Press

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0472133209

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9780472133208

The Book Of Saints And Heroes

By: Andrew Lang

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The Book Of Saints And Heroes

By: Andrew Lang

A noted non-Catholic writer on pedagogical subjects stated some time ago that if his own religious body had the wealth of story contained in the lives of the saints of the Catholic Church, it would be abundantly supplied with religious literature for children. It is true that the lives of the saints are an inexhaustible treasure-house for all that will interest and stimulate children; and that the same treasure-house is too seldom drawn upon. Its riches are, comparatively speaking, little known to our children or, indeed, to our older folks. A book that taps this vein of Catholic inheritance is: The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, and edited by the late Andrew Lang. Needless to say the work is admirably well written, and no child, even though tired, would think of sleep while the story of Jerome and the Lion, or Francis and the Wolf of Agobio, was being read. Here is all that will arouse the imagination, fascinate the mind, and instill that romantic love of heroic deeds which, in turn, is so powerful a stimulus to virtue. The book is most richly and tastefully illustrated with page drawings, many of them beautifully colored. The author has combined legend and history, and has sought to give us an interesting story book.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849673065

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9783849673062

Greek East and Latin West

The Church, AD 681-1071

By: Andrew Louth

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Greek East and Latin West

The Church, AD 681-1071

By: Andrew Louth

This volume gives an account of the Church in the period from the end of the Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 681 to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Although "Greek East" and "Latin West" are becoming distinct entities during this expanse of time, the author treats them in parallel, observing the points at which their destinies coincide or conflict. The author notes developments within the whole of the Church rather than striving simply, or even primarily, to explain the eventual schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Coveriing events both unique to each part (the Iconoclastic controversy in the East and the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the West) and common to each part (monastic reform, renaissance, and mission) the author skillfully portrays two Christian civilizations that share much in common yet become increasingly incomprehensible to one another. Despite curious synchronisms between East and West, the author demonstrates how two paths diverged from a once common route, and how eventually Byzantine Orthodoxy defined the Greek East over and against the Latin West in theological, religious, cultural, and political terms." -- Provided by publisher.

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St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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0881413208

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9780881413205

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