ebooks Bruce Catton's Civil War (Mr. Lincoln's Army/Glory Road/A Stillness at Appomattox) by Bruce Catton in History

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Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists; legal theorists; and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses; theaters; and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science; this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach; Wittgenstein; Buber; and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge; while two other Hungarians; Herzel and Nordau; initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought; such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites.