you could almost be back in the heyday of the Habsburg empire, drinking coffee with Stefan Zweig or Sigmund Freud. open image in gallery With the proclamation of the German-Austrian Republic ...

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 ...

Ferdinand II, who had inherited the Austrian branch of the Habsburg lands Charles ... a rival able to intervene in Italy and Germany, while the Ottoman Empire posed a danger from the southeast.