HIA297
Friends and Foes: Vienna and Berlin, 1791-1938 (Autumn 2024)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Red: essential reading
Blue: personal copy owned
Brown: Czech copy available in the library
Green: book uploaded to the teaching materials
General Reading
C.A. Macartney (ed.)
The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
(Harper and Row, 1970)
Personal copy available
Brendan Simms,
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (Allen Lane, 2013) – Zápas o
evropskou nadvládu : od pádu Cařihradu po současnost (Prostor, 2015) – Kampf um
Vorherrschaft: Eine deutsche Geschichte Europas 1453 bis heute (Deutsche VerlagsAnstalt,
2014)
Personal copy available; Czech copy in the library
Ibid., The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850 (Macmillan Press Limited, 1998)
Personal copy available
Tim Blanning,
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815 (Penguin, 2007) – „Glanz und Größe“. Der
Aufbruch Europas 1648 – 1815 (Verlags-Anstalt, 2022)
English copy in the library; personal copy available
A.J.P. Taylor
The struggle for mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Copy in the library
Paul W. Schroeder
The transformation of European politics 1763-1848 (Clarendon, 1994)
Copy in the library
Roy Bridge
The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914 (Routledge, 2004)
Hannes Leidinger, Karin Moritz, Karin Moser
Streitbare Brüder: Österreich: Deutschland. Kurze Geschichte einer schwierigen
Nachbarschaft (Residenz, 2010)
Martyn Rady
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe (Allen Lane, 2023)
Jan Křen
Dvě století střední Evropy (Argo, 2019)
Copies in the library
Peter J. Katzenstein
Disjoined Partners. Austria and Germany since 1815 (University of California Press,
1976)
Imanuel Geiss
The Question of German Unification: 1806-1996 (Routledge, 1997) – Die deutsche
Frage: 1806-1990 (B.I.-Taschenbuchverlag, 1992)
John Breuilly
Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany: 1806-1871 (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Copy in the library; personal copy available
David Blackbourn,
History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)
Personal copy available
Ibid., Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 (Norton & Company, 2023)
Werner Conze
The Shaping of the German Nation (George Prior, 1979) – Die deutsche Nation :
Ergebnis der Geschichte (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 1965)
James J. Sheehan
German History, 1770-1866 (Clarendon Press, 1993)
Richard J. Evans
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 (Penguin, 2017)
Copy in the Library; personal copy available
The Habsburg Monarchy and Austria
Charles Ingrao,
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618–1815 (3rd
edition, Cambridge University Press, 2019)
English copy of the 2nd
edition (2000) in the library
Personal copy available
A.J.P. Taylor
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809–1918 (Penguin, 1990) – Poslední století habsburské
monarchie. Rakousko a Rakousko-Uhersko v letech 1809–1918 (Barrister & Principal,
1998)
English and Czech copy in the library
Personal copy available
Alan Sked,
The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815–1918 (2nd ed., Longman, 2001) –
Úpadek a pád habsburské říše (Panevropa, 1995)
Several English copies in the library
Personal copy available
John W. Boyer
Austria, 1867-1955 (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Steven Beller
The Habsburg Monarchy 1815–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Personal copy available + I will have the whole book scanned for the class
Ibid., A Concise History of Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2008) – Geschichte
Österreichs (Brill Österreich GmbH, 2007)
English copy in the library
Pieter Judson
The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard University Press, 2018) – Habsburg
(German edition) C.H.Beck, 2018)
English copy in the library
Hannes Leidinger, Verena Moritz
Die Republik Österreich 1918/2008: Überblick, Zwischenbilanz (Deuticke Verlag, 2008)
Copy in the library
Ibid., Umstritten, verspielt, gefeiert. Die Republik Österreich 1918/2018 (Haymon Verlag,
2018)
Martyn Rady
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power Paperback (Penguin, 2022) – Die
Habsburger: Aufstieg und Fall einer Weltmacht (Rowohlt Berlin, 2021) – Habsburkové.
Vzestup a pád světové velmoci (Slovart, 2021)
Personal copy available
Wilhelm J. Wagner
Der große illustrierte Atlas Österreich-Ungarn: Das Habsburger-Reich in Wort, Bild und
Karte (Carl Ueberreuter Verlag, 2009) – Habsburská monarchie. Dějiny RakouskaUherska
slovem i obrazem (Universum, 2012)
Czech copy in library
R.J.W. Evans
Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs. Central Europe c. 1683-1867 (Oxford University
Press, 2006)
Copy in the library
Paula Sutter Fichtner
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire (Red Globe Press, 2003)
Ibid., The Habsburgs: Dynasty, Culture and Politics (Reaktion Books, 2014)
Personal copy available
Barbara Jelavich
Modern Austria. Empire and Republic, 1800-1986 (Cambrige University Press, 1987)
Copy in the library
Personal copy available
Prussia and Germany
Margaret Shennan
The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia, 1618-1740 (Routledge, 1995)
F.L. Carsten
The Origins of Prussia (Hassell Street Press, 2021)
Robert Reinhold Ergang
The Potsdam Führer: Frederick William I, Father of Prussian Militarism (Literary
Licensing, LLC, 2011)
Christopher Clark,
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2006) – Preußen: Aufstieg und Niedergang 1600–1947 (Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, 2007)
Personal English copy available
Ibid., Time and Power – Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years'
War to the Third Reich (Princeton University Press, 2019) – Von Zeit und Macht:
Herrschaft und Geschichtsbild vom Großen Kurfürsten bis zu den Nationalsozialisten
(Pantheon Verlag, 2020)
English copy in the library
Katya Hoyer
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 (The History Press,
2022)
Neil MacGregor
Memories of a Nation (Penguin, 2016) – Německo : vzpomínky jednoho národa (Argo,
2021)
Czech copy in the library
James Hawes
The Shortest History of Germany (Old Street Publishing, 2018) – Stručné německé dějiny
(Leda, 202)
Czech copy in the library
Personal copy available
A.J.P. Taylor
The Course of German history: a Survey of the Development of Germany since 1815
(H. Hamilton, 1945)
Hajo Holborn
A History of Modern Germany, 1648-1840 (Princeton University Press, 1982).
Copies in the library
Personal copy available
E. J. Feuchtwanger
Prussia, myth and reality. The Role of Prussia in German History (Henry Regnery, 1970
Ralph Flenley
Modern German History (Dent, 1959)
Jonathan Sperber (ed.),
Germany, 1800-1870 (Oxford University Press, 1987)
Personal copy available
Mary Fulbrook
A Concise History of Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Personal copy available
Ibid., A History of Germany 1918 - 2020: The Divided Nation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) –
Dějiny moderního Německa : od roku 1918 po současnost (Grada, 2010)
Czech copy in the library
Captivating History (no designated author)
History of Prussia (Captivating History, 2021)
Ibid., History of Germany (Captivating History, 2021)
Military History
Richard Bassett
For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 (Yale University Press,
2016)
Personal copy available
Gordon A. Craig
The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945 (Oxford University Press, USA (31 Dec.
1964)
Copy in the library
Peter H. Wilson
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500 (Allen
Lane, 2022) – Eisen und Blut. Die Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Länder seit 1500
(wgb Theiss, 2023)
Martin Kitchin
A Military History of Germany, From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
(Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1975)
Week 1. Austro-Prussian Relations in the 18th
Century
James Llewelyn White
Origins of Modern Europe, 1660-1789 (John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1965)
Ernst Wangermann
The Austrian Achievement, 1700-1800 (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1973)
Copy in the library
Personal copy available
Tim Blanning,
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (Allen Lane, 2015) – Friedrich der Große – König
von Preußen – eine Biographie (Beck 2018)
English copy in the library
Ibid., Joseph II (Longman, 1994)
Philip G. Dwyer
The Rise of Prussia 1700-1830 (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2001)
Giles MacDonogh
Frederick the Great. A Life in Deed and Letters (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2001)
Theodor Schieder
Frederick the Great (Routledge, 1999) – Friedrich der Große. Ein Königtum der
Widersprüche (Propyläen, 1983)
Ludwig Reiners
Frederick the Great. An Informal Biography (New English Library, 1975)
D. B. Horn
Frederick the Great (English Universities Press, 1967)
William Reddaway
Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia (Putnam, 1930, reprinted 2018)
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Maria Theresia: Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit (C.H.Beck, 2018)
Heinz Rieder
Maria Theresia. Schicksalsstunde Habsburgs (Gernsbach, 1990) – Marie Terezie :
osudová hodina Habsburků (Ikar, 2004)
Czech copy in the library
Jana Janusová
Marie Terezie : legendy a skutečnost (Amosium servis, 1991)
Copy in the library
Week 2. Austria, Prussia, and The French Revolutionary Wars
William Doyle
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020)
G. P. Gooch
Germany and the French revolution (Longmans, Greeen and Co., 1920)
Copy in the library
Franz Dumont (ed.), Goethe-Institut
Deutschland und die französische Revolution 1789/1989 (Cantz, 1989)
Karl A. Roider
Baron Thugut and Austria's Response to the French Revolution (Princeton Legacy
Library, 1987)
David Andress
The Oxford handbook of the French revolution (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Copy in the library
Jules Michelet (1798 – 1874)
Francouzská revoluce (Odeon, 1989)
Crane Brinton
A Decade of Revolution: 1789-1799 (Harper & Row, 1963)
Copy in the library
Miroslav Hroch
Velká francouzská revoluce a Evropa 1789/1800 (Svoboda, 1990)
Week 3. Austria, Prussia, and The Napoleonic Wars
Jan Halada
Metternich kontra Napoleon (Panorama, 1985)
Copy in the library
Michael Leggiere
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 (Cambridge
University Press, 2015)
Alan Sked
Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2011)
Guy Stanton Ford
Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 (Legare Street Press, 2022)
Gunther E. Rothenberg
Napoleon's Great Adversary: The Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792–1814
(The History Press Ltd, 2008), previously known as Napoleon's Great Adversary: The
Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792–1814 (Indiana University Press, 1982)
Ibid., with John Keegan (ed.)
The Napoleonic Wars (History of Warfare) (Weidenfeld Military, 1999) – Die
Napoleonischen Kriege (Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 2000)
Week 4. The Congress of Vienna
Adam Zamoyski
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (Harper Perennial,
2008) – 1815: Napoleons Sturz und der Wiener Kongress (C.H.Beck, 2014)
Mark Jarrett
The Congress of Vienna and Its Legacy: War and Great Power Diplomacy after
Napoleon (I.B. Tauris, 2013)
David King
Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the
Congress of Vienna (Crown, 2009)
Sabine Grabner, Werner Telesko, and Agnes Husslein-Arco (Ed.)
Europe in Vienna: The Congress of Vienna 1814/15 (Hirmer, 2015) – Europa in Wien :
der Wiener Kongress 1814/15 (Belvedere, 2015)
German copy in the library
Luboš Taraba
Vídeňský kongres : tanec nových časů (Epocha, 2020)
Copy in the library
See also the books on Metternich.
Week 5. The Metternich Era
Alan Sked
Metternich and Austria : An Evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) – Metternich a
Rakousko : pokus o hodnocení (CDK, 2014)
English and Czech copy in the library
Wolfram Siemann
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary (Harvard University Press, 2023) – Metternich:
Stratege und Visionär (Beck, 2022)
Alan Palmer
Metternich (History Book Club, 1972) – Metternich. Der Staatsmann Europas (Claassen,
1977)
English copy in the library
Paul W. Schroeder
Metternich’s Diplomacy at Its Zenith (Greenwood Press, 1962)
Muamer Bećirović
Clemens Wenzel von Metternich oder Das Gleichgewicht der Mächte: Biografie (Osburg
Verlag, 2024)
Ivo T. Budil, and Miroslav Šedivý
Metternich & jeho doba : sborník příspěvků z konference uskutečněné v Plzni ve dnech
23. a 24. dubna 2009 (Fakulta filozofická Západočeské univerzity, 2009)
Copy in the library
Henry Kissinger
A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22 (Echo
Point Books & Media, 2013 – first published in 1954) – Das Gleichgewicht der
Großmächte. Metternich, Castlereagh und die Neuordnung Europas 1812-1822 (Econ,
1991) – Obnovení světového řádu : Metternich, Castlereagh a potíže s mírem v letech
1812-1822 (Prostor, 2009)
Czech copy in the library
Week 6. The Turning Point that Failed to Turn: the 1848
Revolutions
John Breuilly
Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany: 1806-1871 (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Copy in the library; personal copy available
Christopher Clark
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 (Allen Lane, 2023)
Jonathan Sperber (ed.),
The European Revolutions, 1848–1851 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Dieter Hein
Die Revolution von 1848/49 (C.H. Beck, 2019)
C. Edmund Maurice
The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy (Outlook Verlag, 2020)
Personal copy available
Hans-Joachim Hahn
The 1848 Revolutions in German-Speaking Europe (Routledge, 2001)
Personal copy available
Michael Rapport
1848: Year of Revolution (Little, Brown, 2008)
English copies in the library
Personal copy available
Arnošt Klíma
Revoluce 1848 v českých zemích (Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1974)
Copy in the library
Karel Kreibich
Němci a česká revoluce roku 1848 (Rovnost, 1950)
Copy in the library
Hans-Ulrich Wehler (ed.), Wolfram Siemann
Die deutsche Revolution von 1848/49 (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985)
Copy in the library
Week 7. From Prussia to Germany, from Austria to Austria-
Hungary
Winfried Heinemann, Lothar Höbelt, Ulrich Lappenküper (eds.)
Der preußisch-österreichische Krieg 1866 (Schöningh, 2017)
Personal copy available
István Diószegi
Österreich-Ungarn und der französisch-preussische Krieg 1870-1871 (Akadémiai kiadó,
1974)
Copy in the library
Klaus-Jürgen Bremm
1866: Bismarcks Krieg gegen die Habsburger (Theiss, 2016)
Rachel Chrastil
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Allen
Lane, 2023)
Stephen Badsey
The Franco-Prussian War: 1870–71 (Osprey Publishing. 2022)
Geoffrey Wawro
The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
See also Bismarck biographies from Week 8 (there are many others which I have not read
or listed but which are present in the library)
Week 8. From Sadowa to Sarajevo
Alan Palmer
Bismarck (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)
A.J.P. Taylor
Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (Hamish Hamilton, 1955) – Bismarck (Piper,
1962 – German edition) – Bismarck (Knižní klub, 1998)
Czech copy in the library
Wilhelm Mommsen
Otto von Bismarck : in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten (Rohwolt, 1966) and
Bismarck : ein politisches Lebensbild (Bruckmann, 1959) – Bismarck (Votobia, 1995)
Czech copy in the library
Jonathan Steinberg
Bismarck: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Volker Ullrich
Bismarck: The Iron Chancellor (Life & Times) (Haus Publishing, 2021)
Roy Bridge
Foreign Policies of the Great Powers: From Sadowa to Sarajevo: The Foreign Policy of
Austria-Hungary, 1866-1914
Copy in the library; personal copy available; pdf. file of chapters 4 and 5 uploaded to
teaching materials
Katya Hoyer
Blood and Iron. The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 (The History Press,
2022)
Week 9. Secret Enemies? Austria-Hungary and Germany in
WWI
Alexander Watson
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 (Allen Lane, 2014)
Gerard E. Silberstein
The Troubled Alliance: German-Austrian Relations, 1914-1917 (University Press of
Kentucky, 2014)
Gary W. Shanafelt
The Secret Enemy: Austria-Hungary and the German Alliance, 1914-1918 ((East
European Monographs, 1985)
Personal copy available; pdf. file of the whole book uploaded to the teaching materials
Weeks 10, 11 and 12 will be available shortly.
Week 10. The Collapse of the Austrian and German Empires
Week 11. The First Austrian Republic
Week 12. The Anschluss: Finis Austriae