The Emperor Incognito: Joseph II's Journey through Enlightenment Europe
Autor Monika Czernin Introducere de Dominic Lieven Traducere de Jamies Bulloch, Jamie Bullochen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iun 2026
It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the European royal houses are beginning to falter. The young Habsburg emperor Joseph II realizes that reform is inevitable, and he eagerly soaks up Enlightenment ideas. Incognito, and without the usual pomp and entourage, he travels through his vast empire to see with his own eyes how his subjects live, suffer, and starve.
Along with princes and kings, he meets ordinary people and visits hospitals and factories in his search for new insights that will help him build a modern state. When he visits his sister Marie Antoinette in Versailles, he can see the French Revolution looming on the horizon. By the end of his journey, he had spent a quarter of his twenty-five-year reign on the road. With an introduction by Dominic Lieven and based on countless sources, Monika Czernin’s The Emperor Travels Incognito tells the story of an extraordinary man in an age of great upheaval, who was far ahead of his time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781914979439
ISBN-10: 1914979435
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 10 maps
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
ISBN-10: 1914979435
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 10 maps
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Notă biografică
Monika Czernin is an internationally renowned author and filmmaker. Her most recent book is Anna Sacher and Her Hotel. Dominic Lieven is currently a visiting professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, and chair of the board of the Paulsen Programme at LSE, hosted by the Department of International History. His most recent book is Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia. Jamie Bulloch is a historian and has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001. He has been shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from German four times, winning in 2014 for his translation of Birgit Vanderbeke's The Mussel Feast.
Cuprins
Preface xi
Prologue 1
1764 Frankfurt: No more courtly travels 13
1768 The Banat: Countless petitioners change one’s outlook 33
1769 Italy: A Marcus Aurelius of the Enlightenment 57
1769 Neisse: The first summit between enlightened rulers 93
1771 Bohemia and Moravia: Famine and serfdom 119
1773 Transylvania and Galicia: Increasingly unfamiliar, increasingly different 143
1777 France: ‘The revolution is going to be terrible’ 183
1781 The Austrian Netherlands: Impatience makes one blind 221
1787 Russia: A Mephistophelian pact 251
Epilogue 265
Acknowledgements 273
Chronology 277
A Note on Sources 285
Notes 295
Index 313
Prologue 1
1764 Frankfurt: No more courtly travels 13
1768 The Banat: Countless petitioners change one’s outlook 33
1769 Italy: A Marcus Aurelius of the Enlightenment 57
1769 Neisse: The first summit between enlightened rulers 93
1771 Bohemia and Moravia: Famine and serfdom 119
1773 Transylvania and Galicia: Increasingly unfamiliar, increasingly different 143
1777 France: ‘The revolution is going to be terrible’ 183
1781 The Austrian Netherlands: Impatience makes one blind 221
1787 Russia: A Mephistophelian pact 251
Epilogue 265
Acknowledgements 273
Chronology 277
A Note on Sources 285
Notes 295
Index 313
Recenzii
"Czernin's descriptions of [his] journeys, long stretches of which read almost like adventure stories, allow the reader to travel far and wide throughout the empire. A panorama of Europe during the Age of Enlightenment."
“Czernin confidently and vividly traces Joseph II’s expeditions, smoothly interweaving them with a biography of one of the key figures of the Habsburg dynasty [...].”
"A vivid portrait of the eighteenth century."
"This book, receiving the Friedrich Schiedel Literature Prize in 2023, is at the interface of historical scholarship and literary fiction, where it impressively fulfills the author’s goal of conveying well-founded European history with that of an engaging ‘story’ in novelistic form, in which the various figures are allowed to voice their experiences by means of direct fictional dialogue. […] In addition, the author skillfully illustrates the degree to which the historical developments of Europe had become interlaced in that period, and she explores the sources from which our current political thought derives. The book, along with being highly readable, is an essential contribution to our understanding of contemporary Europe."
"By choosing a figure such as Emperor Joseph II, Monika Czernin'swork fits in perfectly with our era, in which the political Europe of Nations is part of our daily lives. Whether we criticiseit or not, we can no longer deny it or do without it. […] Monika Czernintakes us through all his journeys in Central and Western Europe, combining pure historicity with an exciting account of life and realism. […] A translation of Monika Czernin'sDer Kaiser ReistIncognitointo the main languages of the Europe of the Enlightenment, such as French and/or English, will be an undeniable cultural enrichment for all speakers. Joseph II, always ahead of his time, clearly understood that Europe can only function through the diversity and complementarity of its states."