Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs

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 national awareness 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 the Habsburgs 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.

ISBN 0199281440   Pages 368 ISBN13 9780199281442 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 697 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 03 Aug 2006   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2006021995   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 943   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		The Habsburgs and Central Europe, 1683-1723		3
2		Maria Theresa and Hungary		17
3		The origins of enlightenment in the Habsburg lands		36
4		Culture and authority in Central Europe, 1683-1806		56
5		The Habsburg monarchy and Bohemia, 1526-1848		75
6		Nationality in East-Central Europe : perception and definition before 1848		101
7		Frontiers and national identities in Central-European history		114
8		Joseph II and nationality in the Habsburg lands		134
9		Religion and nation in Hungary, 1790-1849		147
10		The Habsburgs and the Hungarian problem, 1790-1848		173
11		Empire and kingdoms : Hungary and Bohemia in the monarchy, 1741-1871		193
12		The Translyvanian Saxons : a German diaspora		209
13		Hungary and the German lands in the nineteenth century		228
14		Hungary in the Habsburg monarchy 1840-67 : a study of perceptions		245
15		From confederation to compromise : the Austrian experiments, 1849-67		266
16		Central Europe : the history of an idea		293

The only possible responses to this marvellous book are admiration and gratitude. Derek Beales, Economic History Review Interlinked essays of enormous learning and suggestiveness...all are meticulously reintroduced, reannotated and cross referenced...Few self-proclaimed 'intellectual' historians can boast as sure a grasp as Evans of the politico-military-economic structures enabling cultural activities. Alex Drace-Francis, Central Europe,

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