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Wolfram siemann6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The author goes through considerable gymnastics and arbitrary allocations of guilt and imputations of motives to others that are debatable, to portray Metternich as a far-seeing modernist and constitutional democrat, persevering against less principled and capable people, both hidebound reactionaries and nihilistic revolutionaries and militarists. Wolfram Siemann presents and argues for a new and rather liberal interpretation of ‘the Metternich system’ in place of the normal view of Metternich’s influence as rigid and reactionary. ![]() It is a very extensive and well-researched chronicle of the subject’s monumental career - 39 years as foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, the last 27 of them also as the state chancellor, and an extensive diplomatic career prior to all that. ![]() This is a giant Teutonic forest of a book, to be progressed through with determination as if by seasoned infantry it is as far as biography can get from a Viennese waltz. ![]()
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