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Author Szabo, Franz A. J., author.

Title Kaunitz and enlightened absolutism, 1753-1780 / Franz A.J. Szabo
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Chancellor of State -- 3. The structure of government -- 4. The financial crises of the Monarchy -- 5. The transformation of society -- 6. Church and state -- 7. The military albatross -- 8. The problem of Hungary -- 9. Conclusion
Summary This is the first major archivally based study of the political career of Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1753 to 1792. Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Kaunitz was also the most important statesman in the development of enlightened absolutism in central Europe. Virtually the third head of state under Maria Theresia and Joseph II, he was the driving force behind the many reforms which sought to modernise the monarchy. Using Kaunitz as a focus, the author explores the dynamic of the development of enlightened absolutism in the Habsburg Empire through its most influential proponent and spokesman. Enlightened absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy produced some of the boldest innovations in eighteenth-century Europe, and this book analyses the full complexity of the decision-making process
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Kaunitz-Rietberg, Wenzel Anton, Fürst, 1711-1794.
SUBJECT Kaunitz-Rietberg, Wenzel Anton, Fürst, 1711-1794 fast
Subject Politics and government
SUBJECT Austria -- History -- Maria Theresa, 1740-1780. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009701
Austria -- Politics and government -- 1740-1780. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009728
Austria
Subject Austria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 93005069
ISBN 9780511523489
0511523483