Download or read book Metternich written by Wolfram Siemann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Known as a conservative and an uncompromising practitioner of realpolitik, in fact Metternich accommodated new ideas of liberalism and nationalism insofar as they served the goal of peace. And he promoted reform at home.