Maria Theresa ruled the Habsburg Empire for 40 years. Her reign began timidly, and she opted to defer to the supposed ...

In 1914, the Habsburg empire’s fatal combination of belligerence and weakness triggered World War I and, four years later, the empire’s own dissolution. This graceful account of Habsburg diplomacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --New research suggests prodigious amounts of inbreeding best explains the protruding lower jaw that characterized many of the Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives that made up 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 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 ...

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 ...