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Danubia: a personal history of Habsburg Europe
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Picador
Publication Date
2015.
Edition
First Picador USA ed.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First Picador USA ed.
Place names --
The Habsburg family --
Chapter 1 Tombs, trees and a swamp 17 --
Wandering peoples --
The hawk's fortress --
'Look behind you!' --
Cultic sites --
The elected Caesars --
Chapter 2 The heir of Hector 51 --
The great wizard --
Gnomes on horseback --
Juana's children --
Help from the Fuggers --
The disaster --
Chapter 3 'Mille regretz' 87 --
'The strangest thing that ever happened' --
The armour of heroes --
Europe under siege --
The pirates' nest --
A real bear-moat --
Chapter 4 The other Europe 117 --
Bezoars and nightclub hostesses --
Hunting with cheetahs --
The seven fortresses --
Chapter 5 A surprise visit from a flying hut --
'His divine name will be inscribed in the stars' --
Death in Eger --
Burial rites and fox-clubbing --
The devil-doll --
How to build the Tower of Babel --
Chapter 6 Genetic terrors 177 --
The struggle for mastery in Europe --
A new frontier --
Zeremonialprotokoll --
Bad news if you are a cockatrice --
Private pleasures --
Chapter 7 Jesus vs. Neptune 209 --
The first will --
Devotional interiors --
The second will --
Zips and Piasts --
Chapter 8 The great crisis 243 --
Austria wears trousers --
The Gloriette --
The war on Christmas cribs --
Illustrious corpses --
Carving up the world --
Chapter 9 'Sunrise' 277 --
An interlude of rational thoughtfulness --
Defeat by Napoleon, part one --
Defeat by Napoleon, part two --
Things somehow get even worse --
An intimate family wedding --
Back to nature --
Chapter 10 A warning to legitimists 313 --
Problems with loyal subjects --
Un vero quarantotto --
Mountain people --
Chapter 11 The Temple to Glorious Disaster 343 --
New Habsburg empires --
The stupid giant --
Funtime of the nations --
The deal --
An expensive sip of water --
Chapter 12 Mapping out the future 375 --
The lure of the Orient --
Refusals --
Village of the damned --
On the move --
The Führer --
Chapter 13 The sheep and the melons 411 --
Elves, caryatids, lots of allegorical girls --
Monuments to a vanished past --
Young Poland --
Chapter 14 'The fat churchy one' 439 --
Night music --
Transylvanian rocketry --
Psychopathologies of everyday life --
The end begins --
Chapter 15 The curse of military contingency 471 --
Sarajevo --
The Przemysl catastrophe --
Last train to Wilsonville --
A pastry shell --
The price of defeat --
Triumphs of indifference.
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9781250062024
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