Klemens von Metternich: References & Edit History

Standard biographies include Alan W. Palmer, Metternich (1972); and Desmond Seward, Metternich: The First European (1991). E.L. Woodward, Three Studies in European Conservatism: Metternich, Guizot, the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century (1929); A. May, The Age of Metternich, 1814–1848 (1933); and A. Cecil, Metternich, 1773–1859 (1933), pursue lines of inquiry opened up by a German-language biography: Heinrich, Ritter von Srbik, Metternich, der Staatsmann und der Mensch, 3 vol. (1925–54). Several modern studies have offered various other views of Metternich. Among them are Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh, and the Problems of Peace, 1812–1822 (1957, reissued 2000); Enno E. Kraehe, Metternich’s German Policy, 2 vol. (1963–83); Enno E. Kraehe (ed.), The Metternich Controversy (1977); and Robert D. Billinger, Metternich and the German Question: States’ Rights and Federal Duties, 1820–1834 (1991). The dominant position of Metternich in Europe is treated in P.W. Schroeder, Metternich’s Diplomacy at Its Zenith, 1820–1823 (1962); H.F. Schwarz (ed.), Metternich, the Coachman of Europe (1962); D.E. Emerson, Metternich and the Political Police: Security and Subversion in the Habsburg Monarchy (1815–1830) (1968); and A.G. Haas, Metternich, Reorganization and Nationality, 1813–1818 (1963), which describes a fundamental aspect of Metternich’s plans for internal reform in Austria.