![]() Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge in England. These are narratives spun by the enemies of Austria clearly this is not something you'd hear so much in Berlin or in Vienna itself.Ĭhristopher Clark is professor of modern European history and a fellow of St. And one of these was this idea that Austria was a doomed, anachronistic construct, a morbid edifice which is about to collapse. ![]() ![]() trapped themselves within narratives of their own making. "This is something that struck me very much - the degree to which statesmen, politicians, diplomats and other functionaries. ![]() On the assumption that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was doomed to fail And I think that was a perilous development." I think masculinity was particularly brittle and uncompromising. ![]() You know, I don't want to beat up on men in that sort of self-hating way that some men get into, but I do think that there was something special about the kind of masculinity of these male statesmen at this particular moment, the period up to 1914. But I hadn't really thought about what that meant. 'Are there any women in your book?' And I suddenly was rather appalled to notice that this was a story involving men only. ![]()
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