The War and Democracy · Chapter 11Books
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Unfortunately some of the indispensable books are in German or French, but the following list offers a very considerable choice:—
Austria-Hungary and Poland, by H.W. Steed, W. Alison Phillips, and D. Hannay. (Britannica War Books.) 2s. 6d. net. Uncritical reprint of very valuable articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
LOUIS LEGER. History of Austria-Hungary. 1889 (from French) (out of print).
GEOFFREY DRAGE. Austria-Hungary. 21s. net. 1909. A mine of economic facts.
H.W. STEED. The Habsburg Monarchy. 1914. (3rd ed.) 7s. 6d. net. Far the best summary of tendencies, on the lines of Bodley's France and Bryce's American Commonwealth.
R.W. SETON-WATSON (SCOTUS VIATOR). Racial Problems in Hungary. 1908. 16s. net.
R.W. SETON-WATSON. Corruption and Reform in Hungary. 1911. 4s. 6d. net.
HON.C.N. KNATCHRULL-HUGESSON. The Political Development of the Hungarian Nation. 1910. 2 vols. 14s. net. A good exposition of the extreme Magyar Chauvinist point of view.
R. MAHAFFY. The Emperor Francis Joseph. 1910. 2s. 6d. A useful character-sketch.
C.E. MAURICE. Bohemia. (Story of the Nations.) 1896. 5s. An admirable text-book.
C.E. MAURICE. The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-49. 1887. 16s. The best epitome in English.
COUNT FRANCIS LUTZOW. Bohemia. 1896. (Everyman Library.) 1s.
EMILY G. BALCH. Our Slavic Fellow Citizens. New York. 1910. The best book on emigration. 10s. 6d. net.
W. MILLER. The Balkans. 1896. (Story of the Nations.) The best general text-book. 5s.
W. MILLER. The Ottoman Empire, 1801-1913. 1913. (Cambridge Historical Series.) An excellent book, with a misleading title; it is really a history of the Balkan Christians, with special reference to the Greeks. Turkish history is only introduced incidentally. 7s. 6d. net.
EMILE DE LAVELEYE. The Balkan Peninsula. 1887. (Out of print,) By a distinguished Belgian professor, who was in his day recognised as an authority on Balkan questions.
LEOPOLD VON RANKE. History of Servia. 3s. 6d. (Bohn's Library.) This brilliant and sympathetic study by the greatest of German historians is of permanent value.
SIR ARTHUR J. EVANS. Through Bosnia on Foot. 1877. (Out of print.) The distinguished archaeologist took part, as a young man, in the Bosnian rising against the Turks.
R.W. SETON-WATSON. The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy. 1911. 12s. 0d. net. (Greatly modified and extended in a German edition published in 1913.)
R.W. SETON-WATSON. Absolutism in Croatia. 1912. 2s. net.
CEDO MIJATOVIC. Servia of the Servians. 1911. 16s. net.
ELODIE MIJATOVIC. Serbian Folklore.. 1874.
SIR CHARLES ELIOT (ODYSSEUS). Turkey in Europe. 2nd ed. 7s. 6d. net.
H.N. BRAILSFORD. Macedonia. 1906. 12s. 6d. net.
LUIGI VILLARI AND OTHERS. The Balkan Question. 1905. 10s. 6d. net.