Research on Hispanic American independence usually uses documentation from Spanish and Latin American archives, not taking into account that of those European countries considered outside the orbit of the Hispanic monarchy. The funds of the Austrian State Archives allow us to analyze the theme of the independence using the correspondence of the diplomatic representatives of the Austrian empire stationed in Spain and Brazil. The reports, sent to Vienna between 1808 and 1825, at a time when virtually all of Europe was mired in war, open a new perspective in the investigation on the independence activities. While the documentation of the Austrian representatives in Spain offers the possibility of analysing the American independence movement from within the Spanish crown itself, the reports coming from Brazil allow the access to information from those Austrian diplomats who were geographical...

The new geopolitical order that emerged in Europe in 1919 after the end of World War I was accompanied by the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the liquidation of all its institutions and the subsequent creation of new ones in accordance with the new Republic of Austria. One of the most complex liquidation processes was that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, given that the monarchy had more than five hundred representations around the world and that it was not just a matter of declaring that it had ceased to exist as a political and governmental body. Contemporary documentation stored in the Austrian National Archives makes it possible to take the liquidation of the Austro-Hungarian missions in Argentina, Chile and Peru as an example and to show what it meant to organise the administrative dismantling of these missions, and the feelings of ambiguity faced by the imperial re...

The new geopolitical order that emerged in Europe in 1919 after the end of World War I was accompanied by the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the liquidation of all its institutions and the subsequent creation of new ones in accordance with the new Republic of Austria. One of the most complex liquidation processes was that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, given that the monarchy had more than five hundred representations around the world and that it was not just a matter of declaring that it had ceased to exist as a political and governmental body. Contemporary documentation stored in the Austrian National Archives makes it possible to take the liquidation of the Austro-Hungarian missions in Argentina, Chile and Peru as an example and to show what it meant to organise the administrative dismantling of these missions, and the feelings of ambiguity faced by the imperial re...

The new geopolitical order that emerged in Europe in 1919 after the end of World War I was accompanied by the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the liquidation of all its institutions and the subsequent creation of new ones in accordance with the new Republic of Austria. One of the most complex liquidation processes was that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, given that the monarchy had more than five hundred representations around the world and that it was not just a matter of declaring that it had ceased to exist as a political and governmental body. Contemporary documentation stored in the Austrian National Archives makes it possible to take the liquidation of the Austro-Hungarian missions in Argentina, Chile and Peru as an example and to show what it meant to organise the administrative dismantling of these missions, and the feelings of ambiguity faced by the imperial re...