A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918"An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen critical appreciation of the diverse cultures of the monarchy. Its greatest merit derives from the author's determination always to ask fundamental questions, his care to discriminate between surface phenomena and deeper causes, his skill in finding significant patterns in an apparently chaotic welter of events, his facility for perceptive and penetrating distinctions and generalizations. In short, he tried with considerable success to tell what really happened in history rather than simply what obviously happened."—Canadian Historical Review |
Contents
TOWARD THE UNION OF THE HABSBURG | 1 |
B Social and cultural conditions in the Hereditary lands | 12 |
The evolution of the Eastern crowns and their status at | 18 |
TURKS AND PROTESTANTS 15261648 | 25 |
B Sovereignty in the AustroGerman and Eastern Habsburg | 32 |
E The Thirty Years war Protestantism and the Habsburg | 45 |
AN EMPIRE EVOLVES AND ASSERTS ITSELF | 54 |
power | 96 |
Hungary | 424 |
406 | 444 |
WORLD WAR AND DISSOLUTION 19141918 | 468 |
CULTURAL TRENDS | 521 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY | 565 |
Population and nationality statistics | 603 |
The Austrian Habsburg and HabsburgLorraine rulers | 609 |
Maps | 616 |
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