Books by Claudio Magris
“It’s digressive, discursive and elusive. It’s metaphorical. It’s obscure. It’s rambling. But I think it gives a sense of living and experiencing Central Europe. In the course of the book and its meander along the Danube, you go through layers and layers of the past. You go through different landscapes, and you meet different people through time.” Read more...
The best books on The Austro-Hungarian Empire
Jonathan Kwan, Historian
Interviews where books by Claudio Magris were recommended
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The Habsburg Empire: A New History
by Pieter M. Judson -
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Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna: Origins of the Christian Social Movement, 1848-1897
by John Boyer -
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
by Carl E. Schorske -
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Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948
by Tara Zahra -
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Danube: A Journey through the Landscape, History and Culture of Central Europe
by Claudio Magris
The best books on The Austro-Hungarian Empire, recommended by Jonathan Kwan
The best books on The Austro-Hungarian Empire, recommended by Jonathan Kwan
The Austro-Hungarian Empire is often viewed as unmanageable in its diversity, and its eventual collapse inevitable. But, as historian Jonathan Kwan explains, it was politically much more robust that people have given it credit for and its capital, Vienna, the most culturally vibrant place in Europe.
