...This chapter discusses the Romanians who were part of the Habsburg monarchy. Most of them were overwhelmingly peasant, and thus were not able to play any significant role in the political structures of the aristocrats. Just like their countrymen in the principalities, the Romanians in Transylvania...

... of the episcopal reforms and compares the outcome to those in Revolutionary France and the Habsburg Monarchy. bishops Four Years' Sejm Prussia kingdom of republicanism republicans sejmiks Stanisław August king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania Warsaw Belgium Catherine II the Great empress of Russia...

...This first chapter introduces the purpose of the book, which is to examine the Counter-Reformation in Styria, one of the provinces of Inner Austria's Habsburg Monarchy, from the beginnings of forcible recatholicisation in the late 16th century to the definite termination of religious persecution...

...This book demonstrates that the Counter-Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries contributed to the process of state building in Inner Austria in various ways, most important among which were the enhancement of the power of the Habsburg Monarchy and the creation of an ideological formula...

... Imperial Ottoman Palace Orchestra Nußbaumer Martina Sweden German Kaiserreich Habsburg Monarchy competition between cities orchestra orchestra tours music economics modernism marketing WWI Given the modesty which we Austrians display far too much in all questions concerning our own fatherland...

... the relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and her peoples. She injected a new style of sovereignty into the Imperial house, eliminating the “forbidden zone” that surrounded the person of earlier Habsburg rulers in Vienna. She became truly popular with her subjects. Nearly all vestiges of the Spanish Habsburgs...

...This introductory chapter briefly traces the development of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy under the Habsburg monarchy in years 1772–1867, focusing on the province of Galicia. During this period, the Austrian Enlightenment-minded rulers of the Habsburg monarchy planned on reforming...

... danger while the political and economic structure of the empire narrowed the range of viable tools for responding effectively to external threats and putting it on a secure long-term footing. Yet somehow, despite the seemingly insurmountable threats arrayed against it, the Habsburg Monarchy had survived...

...This chapter explores the outworkings of geography and administrative complexity on Habsburg conceptions of military force and political power more broadly. The Habsburg Monarchy’s physical and political geography shaped how its leaders thought about war. Austria’s position at the heart of Europe...

...This chapter traces the breakdown of the Metternichian system, from the time of the revolution of 1848 and Crimean War to the debilitating defeats by Italy in 1859 and Prussia in 1866. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the Habsburg Monarchy suffered defeats in a series of short...

... Portugal Slovenia Spain borders Czechoslovakia England Visegrad states V 4 Romania trade unions Habsburg monarchy State formation Elias, Norbert Nationalisms Centrifugal teendencies Parliamentarisation European decision-making Crises of the European Union For roughly four centuries...

...This chapter deals with the development of the General War Commissariat from its establishment in the 1640s to the reforms of government and military between the 1740s and 1760s, discussing its position within the administrative structure of the Habsburg Monarchy. Responsible for the economy...

... special thanks goes to Debbie Bryce for her invaluable help in the Austrian State Archives. Based on a wide-ranging statistical study of regimental muster rolls, this chapter reveals that a regional conscription system administered by the provincial Estates of the Habsburg Monarchy was the single largest...

... Inaugural how the development of historical understanding usually transforms a story from melodrama into tragedy. Mr Taylor reduces the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy from tragedy to a political theorem.” Austrian Empire Carlyle Thomas Eastern Europe European history foreign policy French Wars Germany...

..., but rather the outcomes of external pressures on the Faculty. Rising student numbers, state-building tactics of the Habsburg monarchy, and the Council of Trent’s programme for Catholic Reform presented diverse challenges to the curriculum that the theologians accommodated through negotiation. Although...

...This chapter focuses on the Austrian workers’ movement during the First World War and the Habsburg Monarchy’s collapse, 1914–18. In these cataclysmic years, a new rift opened between the Social Democratic party leadership, which generally acquiesced in the wartime military dictatorship, hoping...

... of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as its main constituents, as well as touching upon milestones in Latvian and Estonian historiography. This chapter also points out certain key events, such as the revolutionary year of 1848 in the Habsburg Monarchy and the conclusion of the Austro...

...This chapter deals with the ‘right of equality’ among the nationalities in the Habsburg monarchy, trying to establish whether (and how) the famous Article 19 of the constitution of 1867 proclaiming ‘Equality among the Nationalities’ offered suitable solutions to the complex issue of nationalities...

.... The latter developed a controversial harmonic style associated with modernism that came to be termed “atonality.” The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and the turbulent aftermath to World War I signaled an end to tolerance for musical modernism. Berg Alban Buschbeck Erhard Schoenberg Arnold Strauss...

...Interwar Poland inherited the problem of prostitution and human trafficking from its three predecessor states, above all from the Habsburg Monarchy. It soon came into the focus of interest of the League of Nations’ anti-trafficking agencies. Exploring the interaction between the recently acquired...