Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, ...

A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in ...

Can we learn anything from the Habsburg Monarchy? A few broad principles of Habsburg strategic statecraft stand out as potentially relevant in any era. Excerpted ...

The French aren’t having a great jewelry year, but the Austrians, on the other hand, can count on ending 2025 on a glittering ...

Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...

Anthony Alofsin observes that his controlling metaphor in When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Hapsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 (University of Chicago Press), has a long ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

In this work, Dr. Mitchell, a veteran policy analyst who is currently Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, takes a look at the “Habsburg Puzzle”. That is, the success of the ...

Richard Bassett, For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 616 pp., $45.00. THE REPUTATION of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian ...

In the pre-war system of Europe the question of the Hapsburg Empire was hardly less complicated or less pressing than the so-called Eastern Question, though somehow it never aroused the same general ...

If you were to travel to the early 1800s and strike up a conversation with a European scientist about climate, they would begin by asking why you hadn’t read your Aristotle. First sketched by the ...