Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel: Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)

ISBN-13: 9781433110801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 472 str.

Brigitte Hamann;Edith Borchardt

Opis

This is a translation of Brigitte Hamann's study of Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria.

Spis treści

Translator's Note - Introduction (from the 1978 edition of Rudolf. Kronprinz und Rebell) - Preface (from the 2005 edition of Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben) - Childhood at the Imperial Court in Vienna - A Bourgeois Education - A Year of Traveling - Ornithology - Residence in Prague - An Inappropriate Friendship - Representation for Technology and Science - The Military - Hungary - Chaos in the Balkans - Germany - The Big Reversal - The Road to Mayerling - Mayerling - Reactions - Notes - Crown Prince Rudolf Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Brigitte Hamann, Dr. phil., was born in Essen and studied history and Germanistik in Münster and Vienna. She has been widely recognized for her numerous publications about Austrian history. Her main works, Elisabeth, Hitler's Vienna, and Winifred Wagner, became bestsellers highly praised by experts and the press. Until her death on October 4, 2016, she lived in Vienna, Austria.

Edith Borchardt, Professor of German Emerita (University of Minnesota, Morris), was born in Vienna, Austria. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Mythische Strukturen im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (1987) and Women in the Shadows (2008), a translation of Charles S. Chiu's Frauen im Schatten.