The Habsburg Monarchy, C. 1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse - Hardcover

Okey, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312233752 ISBN 13: 9780312233754

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2001

Synopsis

The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economi, and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast interesting light on these processes from both the European and the Habsburg angle. Opposing views that the national problem was therefore subordinate to underlying socio-economic backwardness, Okey argues for the inextricable entanglement of the two themes, as nationalism emerged from a process of social mobilization which threatened the position of dominant Austro-Germans and Magyars. Robin Okey brings a distinctive approach to an intriguing subject, in a comprehensive study based on wide reading in most of the Monarchy's languages.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Okey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Review:

"Scholars and students will welcome this fine survey of the Habsburg Monarchy in the modern era." --Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312233752
• ISBN 13: 9780312233754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464