Welcome to HABSBURG, a member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online family of networks sponsored by the Michigan State University. HABSBURG is a daily Internet discussion forum dedicated to the history and culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, its successor states, and their peoples from 1500 to the present. The primary purpose for HABSBURG is to enable scholars in history and related disciplines to communicate current research and research interests, stimulate discussion of approaches, methods and tools of analysis and circulate information on new articles, books, jobs/grants and resources. All languages are welcome.
Founded in October 1991, HABSBURG was the first Internet discussion group dedicated to an historical theme. We are affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the Czechoslovak Studies Association, and the Hungarian Studies Association. We welcome any new members and encourage participation in HABSBURG activities. If you have any question or wish to become more involved, please get in touch with the editorial team.
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I am looking for information on the Austrian consul in New York in the 1830s, Baron Alois von Lederer (d. 22 December 1842, see further: https://gw.geneanet.org/szcandre?lang=en&n=von+lederer&oc=0&p=alois+joseph+xavier). He died in New York City, where he was based, but I wonder if he left any papers that have survived. Have they been transferred to the state archives in Vienna or do any remain with family? Are there any in the United States? To be clear, I am not concerned about his prodigious rock-collecting habits but his relationship to the Leopoldine Society, particularly any assistance
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Martyn C. Rady.
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World.
New York: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2020. xvii + 397 pp. Ill.
$32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5416-4450-2. 
Georg Bernhard Michels. The Habsburg Empire under Siege. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. 608 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00575-9; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-228-00698-5.
Reviewed by Tobias P. Graf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät)
Published on HABSBURG (September, 2022)
Commissioned by Yasir Yilmaz (Purdue Univ.)
Paul B. Miller, Claire Morelon, eds. Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918. Austrian and Habsburg Studies, vol. 22. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 366 pp. $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-022-5.
Reviewed by John Deak (University of Notre Dame)
Published on HABSBURG (September, 2021)
Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Dominique Kirchner Reill.
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 312 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24424-5.