The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy.
Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna's military back at the centre stage of early modern...
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great...
Die Maria-Theresianische Staatsreform im Anschluß an die Krise des Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieges (1740-1748) und die Niederlage gegen Preußen waren der Auftakt zu einem beispiellosen Reformzeitalter, das die barocke Habsburgermonarchie für den Überlebenskampf im internationalen Wettbewerb fit machen sollte. Am chronologischen Endpunkt des österreichischen aufgeklärten Absolutismus stand jedoch unter Kaiser Joseph II. 1789/90 wieder eine schwere Staatskrise, die zu beweisen schien, daß auch ein halbes Jahrhundert tiefgreifender Strukturreformen die Fragilität der österreichischen...
Die Maria-Theresianische Staatsreform im Anschluß an die Krise des Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieges (1740-1748) und die Niederlage gegen Preußen wa...
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy.
Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna s military back at the centre stage of early modern...
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria s emergence as a European great...
