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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large-format heavy hardcover, shipping weight over 2.5kg, fully bilingual (Danish & English), 527 pages, copiously illustrated, map endpapers, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. Staining to the edges of pages 14-15; a couple of dark fingermarks in the margin of p.85. Else clean condition with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume, published as the catalogue for a major exhibition at Christiansborg Palace, provides a detailed historical account of Denmark's precarious position during the Congress of Vienna. It chronicles the high-stakes diplomatic maneuvering required following Denmark's alliance with Napoleonic France, which led to the loss of Norway. The book's unique approach is to tell this story of political survival through the magnificent objects of the Royal Danish Collections. It uses the portraits, documents, uniforms, and especially the grand silver services used at the Congress's balls and banquets to explore the "Dancing Congress" - the social and cultural dimension where informal influence was crucial. The work serves as a richly illustrated guide to how Denmark used cultural display and social diplomacy as tools to navigate a national crisis. -- Contents: Introduction; Road to Vienna: Denmark's War, 1807-1814 / Ole Feldbaek; Denmark and the Congress of Vienna / Claus Bjorn [Struggle for Survival; Relations With Russia and Sweden; Christian Günther Bernstorff and the German Confederation; Europe After the Congress of Vienna; Denmark, Holstein, Germany; Denmark in European Politics]; King Frederik VI in Vienna, 1814-1815 / Hans Kargaard Thomsen; Alexander I and the Congress of Vienna / Nikolai A. Troitsky; Clemens Wenzel Lothar Prince von Metternich / Ernst D. Petritsch [Metternich's Background, Training and Early Career; Foreign Policy; Police, Suppression and Censorship; Significance and Final Years]; British Interests and Peacemaking in Europe, 1813-1815 / Rory Muir; Talleyrand in Vienna / Jean Tulard; Congress of Vienna in the Memoirs of a Russian Officer / Alexander Sapozhnikov [Journal From 1814 & 1815]; Congress of Vienna and the Emperor of Russia: Reports From Vienna's Secret Police / V. Timoshchuk; European Gratitude to the Duke of Wellington / Alicia Robinson; Glorious Moment: Beethoven and the Congress of Vienna / Ingrid Fuchs; Congress of Vienna and Music / Otto Biba; Culinary Art at the Court in Vienna Under the Emperor Francis I and Dining with Herr Biedermeier / Ingrid Haslinger [Imperial Table; Dining with Herr Biedermeier]; Parties for the Princes, Parties for the People / Ingrid Haslinger; "The Greatest Possible Economy, Constantly Bearing in Mind What is Fitting" / Lieselotte Hanzl-Wachter [Imperial Residences; Hofburg in Vienna; Summer Palaces; Congress of Vienna; A Revival of Craftsmanship; 'Age of Mahogany' or ' Made in Austria']; Fashion During the Congress of Vienna / Regina Karner; "We Will Array Ourselves in All the Pearls and Diamonds of Hungary, Bohemia, and Austria": Jewelry from 1800 to 1815 / Elisabeth Schmuttermeier; Garments from the Danish Court / Katia Johansen; Congress of Vienna, Day by Day / Ingrid Haslinger; Catalogue [pages 330-521, 459 exhibits: visual arts (paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture), decorative arts and handicraft (furniture, tableware, etc.), jewellery and clothes, insignia and medals, personal belongings and accessories, devices and tools, maps and plans, documents, lists and reports, posters and advertising pamphlets, printed music and scores, letters and notes, etc.).