![]() ![]() ![]() In this biography, Wolfram Siemann argues that the conventional view of Metternich is wrong. For many, he represents everything that the revolutionaries of 1848 opposed. ![]() He is usually considered a stubborn conservative and an enemy of liberalism and nationalism, which then went hand in hand. His influence on international affairs in the first half of the century was so profound that the period is sometimes called the Age of Metternich. Metternich held the highest civilian posts in the Austrian Empire without interruption from 1809 to 1848, helped determine the shape of post-Napoleonic Europe, and established the system of international congresses (the Metternich system) that dominated international relations up to 1918 and set a precedent for the League of Nations and the United Nations. This is a major biography of Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859), perhaps the most important European politician of the first half of the nineteenth century. ![]()
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