What can a sustainable peace order in Europe look like? Russia, Prussia and Austria also sat at the negotiating table at the Congress of Vienna. The order shaped by Prince Metternich at that time is regarded as the epitome of reaction, against all new liberal and national forces. Wolfram Siemann's biography "Metternich. Strategist and Visionary" has changed this picture. For his biography, the successor to Gerhard A. Ritter evaluated Metternich's long overlooked estate in Prague, where he came across documents on the Austrian foreign minister's motives: after 20 years of war in Europe, Metternich feared that the nations' drive for freedom would lead to an even bloodier catastrophe.
Wasn't a legally binding balance of the European powers then the progress that could be made at the time? Wolfram Siemann looks at Metternich in his own time and discovers an adversary of Napoleon who was more modern than he has long been given credit for.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Siemann, Wolfram
Title
Metternich. Stratege und Visionär
Details
Paperback, 73 ill. 992 pp.
State
new
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Hindenburgstr. 40 64295 Darmstadt Deutschland
