Fall of the Dynasties (eBook)

The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922

Edmond Taylor (Autor)

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2015
432 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0051-2 (ISBN)

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Popular history of the finest sort . . . an excellent book worthy to rank with Barbara Tuchmans The Guns of August and Alan Mooreheads Gallipoli. The New York TimesOn June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots. In the next five minutes, as the stout middle-aged Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife bled to death, a dynastyand with it, a whole way of lifebegan to topple.In the ages before World War I, four dynastiesthe Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanovdominated much of civilization. Outwardly different, they were at bottom somewhat alike: opulent, grandiose, suffocating in tradition, ostentatiously gilded on the surface and rotting at the core. Worse still, they were tragically out of step with the forces shaping the modern world.The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay and their splintered baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war. All convulsions of the last half-century, Taylor writes, stem back to Sarajevo: the two World Wars, the Bolshevik revolution, the rise and fall of Hitler, and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Millions upon millions of deaths can be traced to one or another of these upheavals; all of us who survive have been scarred at least emotionally by them.In this classic volume, Taylor traces the origins of the dynasties whose collapse brought the old order crashing down and the events leading to their astonishingly swift downfall.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Edmond Taylor was born on February 13, 1908, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, but abandoned school during his freshman year for journalism. He became head of the Chicago Tribune’s Paris bureau in 1933 and published several works of history in a long career as a writer. He died in 1998.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Archduke Franz Ferdinand • assassination • austria • Austrian dynasty • Austrian monarchy • autocracy • balkan history • baroque • Bolshevik rvolution • causes of WWI • collapse of the old order • Diplomacy • diplomats • dynasts • European dynasty • European History • fossile monarchy • German History • germany world war 1 • Germany world war I • gift for history buff • Habsburg Dynasty • Hapsburgs • History • history book • history buff • Hohenzollern dynasty • Hohenzollerns • house of Habsburg-Lorraine • House of Hohenzollern • house of Romanov • Hungarian dynasty • Hungary • League of Nations • Machiavelli • modern history • Old Order • Ottoman dynasty • Ottomans Germany ww1 • pre-WW1 history • pre-wwi • Romanaovs • Romanov dynasty • Russian History • Russian monarchy • Sarajevo • Suicide • Wilhelm II • witch doctor • World War 1 • World War I • World War One • WW1 • WW1 causes • ww I • WWI causes
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0051-X / 151070051X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0051-2 / 9781510700512