Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe C.1683-1867OUP Oxford, 2006 M08 3 - 337 pages This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era from the later seventeenth to the later nineteenth century as a whole, and to demonstrate continuities, as well as casting light on key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and nationalawareness in Central Europe, and the crises of ancien-regime strucutres there in the face of new challenges at home and abroad.Each of the essays - some of which specially written for this volume, and others available for the first time in English - is intended to be free-standing and accessible on its own; but they are also designed to fit together and demonstrate an overall coherence. Much attention is devoted to the Austrian or Habsburg lands, especially the interplay of the main territories which comprised them. A central issue here is the evolution of the kingdom of Hungary, from its full acquisition by theHabsburgs at the beginning of the period to the emergence of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the end. But the chapters also range more broadly, both territorially and chronologically.Though much of the scholarship underpinning this masterly exploration may be unfamiliar to many readers, this is a an elegantly written and stimulating collection, which reflects the exploratory and individual character of the essay as a genre. |
Contents
The Habsburgs and Central Europe 16831723 | 3 |
Maria Theresa and Hungary | 17 |
The Origins of Enlightenment in the Habsburg Lands | 36 |
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Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Essays on Central Europe, C.1683-1867 Robert John Weston Evans No preview available - 2008 |
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