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Author Judson, Pieter M., author.

Title The Habsburg empire : a new history / Pieter M. Judson
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 567 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- The accidental empire -- Servants and citizens, empire and fatherland, 1780-1815 -- An empire of contradictions, 1815-1848 -- Whose empire? : the revolutions of 1848-1849 -- Mid-century modern : the emergence of a liberal empire -- Culture wars and wars for culture -- Everyday empire, our empire, 1880-1914 -- War and radical state building, 1914-1925 -- Epilogue: The new empires
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Habsburg, House of -- History
SUBJECT Habsburg, House of fast
Subject Nationalism -- Europe, Central -- History
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary.
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Nationalism
Central Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674969346
0674969340
0674969324
9780674969322