Vienna: A Cultural History

by Nicholas Parsons

Book Overview

From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, Vienna began the long climb back to the prosperous and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195376072
• ISBN13: 9780195376074
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"