The Habsburg Monarchy C.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse

ISBN-13: 9780333396537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 456 str.

University Of Warwi Robin (Senior Lecturer In History Okey

Opis

The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economic and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast interesting light on these processes from both the European and the Habsburg angle. Opposing views that the national problem was therefore subordinate to underlying socio-economic backwardness, Okey argues for the inextricable entanglement of the two themes, as nationalism emerged from a process of social mobilisation which threatened the position of dominant Austro-Germans and Magyars. Robin Okey brings a distinctive approach to an intriguing subject, in a comprehensive study based on wide reading in most of the Monarchy's languages.

Spis treści

Foreword.- PART I: DYNASTIC EMPIRE, c. 1765-1867 Foundations.- Joseph II and his Legacy.- Metternich's Austria: Pyrrhic Victory Abroad. Social Question at Home.- Liberalism and Nationalism.- 1848-49.- Eventful Transition, 1849-67.- PART II: DUAL MONARCHY, 1867-1918 Liberalism.- Economics.- Society and Social Movements.- Nationalism.- Hungary.- Austria-Hungary in the Early Twentieth Century.- Towards War and Collapse.- Notes.- Annotated Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

ROBIN OKEY is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick.