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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451368703321

Autore

Evans Robert John Weston

Titolo

Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Central Europe, c.1683-1867 / / R.J.W. Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-75857-0

0-19-153586-9

1-4294-7095-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

943.6/03

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Europe, Central History

Austria Historiography

Hungary Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Chronology; Maps; INTRODUCTION; PART I . ABSOLUTIST ENLIGHTENMENT; PART II. THE RISE OF NATIONS; PART III. REGIONS AND THEIR INTERPLAY; PART IV. THE REVOLUTION AND BEYOND; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

These elegantly written essays by the leading historian of the Austro-Hungarian empire explore the political and religious history of the Habsburg lands, Europe's only true multinational state. They illuminate key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe over more than two centuries of cultural and social transition. - ;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