METTERNICH, KLEMENS, FURST VON

Additional reading Standard biographies include H. von Srbik, Metternich der Staatsmann und der Mensch, 3 vol. (192554); and Alan W. Palmer, Metternich (1972). An opposing and unfavourable view of Metternich is given in V. Bibl, Metternich, der Daemon Oesterreichs (1936). The works by E.L. Woodward, Three Studies in European Conservatism: Metternich, Guizot, the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century (1929); A. May, The Age of Metternich, 18141848 (1933); and A. Cecil, Metternich, 17731859 (1933), have pursued lines of inquiry opened up by Srbik. Several modern studies have offered various other views of Metternich. Among them are E.E. Kraehe, Metternich's German Policy, vol. 1, The Contest with Napoleon, 17991814 (1963); Kraehe (ed.), The Metternich Controversy (1977); and G. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Metternich et la France aprs le Congrs de Vienne, vol. 1, De Napolon Decazes 18151820 (1968), vol. 2, Les Grands Congrs18201824 (1970). The dominant position of Metternich in Europe is treated in P.W. Schroeder, Metternich's Diplomacy at Its Zenith, 18201823 (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 (18151830) (1968); and A.G. Haas, Metternich, Reorganization and Nationality, 18131818 (1963), which describes a fundamental aspect of Metternich's plans for internal reform in Austria.