Professor of History, Purdue University
1358 University Hall
West Lafayette, IN  47907-1358
Phone:  765-494-8385
cingrao at purdue.edu

Charles Ingrao is Professor of History at Purdue University, Editor of The Austrian History Yearbook, General Editor of Central European Studies.  He has published seven books on the history of early modern and modern central Europe, including In Quest & Crisis: Emperor Joseph I and the Habsburg Monarchy, The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions and Reform under Frederick II, and The Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815. Since 1995 he has focused his research on contemporary ethnic conflict in central Europe. Since the signing of the Dayton Accords, he has made nineteen research trips to the former Yugoslavia,  authored two dozen articles, and presented eighty public lectures and seminars to university, governmental, and military audiences throughout North America and central Europe. He is a regular commentator for print, radio and television media both in North America and Serbia-Montenegro, including The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), VOA, Danas, Radio-TV Yugoslavia (RTS) and Kosovo Sot. He also directs a USG-funded Scholars' Initiative of 200+ scholars from 26 countries who are presently reexamining the controversies surrounding the Yugoslav wars (website: www.sla.purdue.edu/si).

2.) Spanish Empire (3:48 minutes)

3.) Habsburg Monarchy (4:25 minutes)

4.) Holy Roman Empire (5:09 minutes)

5.) Political System and Institutional Structure of the Holy Roman Empire (4:08 minutes)

6.) Multilateralism, Principle of Consensus, and Concessions (8:02 minutes)

7.) Features of the Habsburg Monarchy/Empire and Status Quo (8:07 minutes)

8.) Disparities of Identity and Problems Leading to Demise (15:50 minutes)

9.) Lack of Political Reforms in the 19th Century (4:30 minutes)

NWC "Empires" Evening Speaker Series