Diplomatic History
Austrian Perceptions of America’s Role in the Emerging Global Order, 1840–1867 The project deals with US-Austrian relations in the mid-19th century and the way Austrian elites and broad public started to perceive the USA as both a new great power and an important player in European and world politics. In doing so, the project not…
19th-century Mexican Conservative Thought and the European Intervention (1861-67). This project analyses the perspective of three aristocrats who were involved in and/or affected by the European intervention that led to the establishment of Maximilian of Habsburg in Mexico. Through a close reading of the memoirs of these peripheral figures, cross-referencing them with social and political studies…