The Habsburg empire : a new history
Judson, Pieter M.2016
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"Moving beyond older approaches to the history of the Habsburgs in Central Europe in which nations are the main actors and nationalist conflict the inevitable moving force in the monarchy's trajectory, Pieter Judson offers an alternate narrative framework for the history of Habsburg Central Europe from the eighteenth century to the demise of the empire in World War I. He investigates how shared imperial institutions, administrative practices, and cultural programs helped to shape local society in every region of the empire. He shows how all of these elements gave imperial citizens fundamentally common experiences that crossed linguistic, confessional, and regional divides--experiences that even shaped nationalists' understandings of nationhood. And he traces what happened to the common or shared elements of imperial practice when the Habsburg monarchy formally ceased to exist in 1918."--Provided by publisher.In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to 'their empire' while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Europe's second largest state.
Main title:
The Habsburg empire : a new history / Pieter M. Judson.
Author:
Judson, Pieter M., author
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Collation:
xiii, 567 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
Contents:
The accidental empireServants and citizens, empire and fatherland, 1780-1815An empire of contradictions, 1815-1848Whose empire? the revolutions of 1848-1849The emergence of a liberal empireCulture wars and wars for cultureEveryday empire, our empire, 1880-1914War and radical state building, 1914-1925.
ISBN:
9780674047761 (hbk)
Dewey class:
943.604943.604
Language:
English
Related title:
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BRN:
223401