The Habsburg Monarchy 1815–1918: 55 (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 55)
Cambridge University Press, 5/10/2018
EAN 9781107091894, ISBN10: 1107091896
Hardcover, 326 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This clear and compelling account of the Habsburg Monarchy in its last century explains why, a century after its disappearance, it has never been more relevant. With extensive discussion of recent historiographic controversies about the Monarchy's character and viability, Steven Beller presents a detailed account of the main strands of the Monarchy's political history and how its economic, social and cultural development interacted with this main narrative. While recognizing the importance of these larger trends, readers will learn how the historical accident of personality and the complexities of high politics and diplomacy still had a central impact on the Monarchy's fate. Although some would see the Monarchy as an atavistic irrelevance in the modern age, its multicultural, multinational experience and inclusive 'logic' was in many ways more relevant to our modernity than the nationalism that did so much to bring about its demise.
List of figures
Introduction
Austria and modernity
1. 1815–1835
restoration and procrastination
2. 1835–1851
revolution and reaction
3. 1852–1867
transformation
4. 1867–1879
liberalization
5. 1879–1897
nationalization
6. 1897–1914
modernization
7. 1914–1918
self-destruction
Conclusion
Central Europe and the paths not taken
Bibliography
Index.