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Hochedlinger Michael |
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Austria's wars of emergence : war, state and society in the Habsburg monarchy, 1683-1797 / / Michael Hochedlinger |
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Oxfordshire, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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©2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Modern Wars In Perspective |
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Austria History 1519-1740 |
Austria History 1740-1789 |
Austria History 1789-1815 |
Austria History, Military |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: The belated great power; Modest Origins - the Habsburg Monarchy During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century; 1. The domestic foundations; The question of terminology; The territorial and administrative configuration of the Habsburg Monarchy; Limited absolutism: the provincial Estates; Economy; Finances; 2. The primacy of power politics; The instruments of foreign policy |
From domestic to foreign policy: the Habsburgs and the Reich after 1648Geopolitical challenges and responses; 3. Home defence; Feudal levy and peasant militia in the Austro-Bohemian lands; Hungary; The Military Border (Militärgrenze); The contribution of the Reich; 4. The standing army; Origins and growth; The High Command; The officer corps; Military administration; Artillery; Technical branches; The guards; Weaponry; Military industries; Uniforms; Quarters and provisions; Soldiers' families and the baggage train; Military justice; Religion; Medical service and disabled soldiers |
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Tactics, strategy and the primacy of logisticsAustria's 'Age of Heroes' 1683-1733; 5. The Turkish War 1683-1699; The Kuruc rebellion; The siege of Vienna; The Habsburg counter-offensive; 6. The Nine Years War 1689-1697; The 'reunions'; The French invasion of Germany; From stalemate to peace; 7. The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714; The Spanish inheritance; The Italian peninsula; Germany; The Spanish Netherlands; Spain; The peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden 1713-1714; The Rákóczy rebellion 1703-1711; 8. Renewed expansion; The Turkish War of 1716-1718; Trade expansion |
The Italian question 1717-1732The Crisis of a Great Power 1733-1748; 9. Diplomatic reverses and military defeats; The Pragmatic Sanction; The War of the Polish Succession 1733-1738; The Turkish War 1737-1739; 10. Squaring the circle or how to administer and defend a territorial giant; The new provinces; State finances; The crisis of the army; Austria goes to sea; Extension, crisis and early reforms of the Military Border; 11. The War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748; Finis Austriae?; Austria's recovery; War in Italy; The second Silesian War 1744-1745; War in the Austrian Netherlands |
The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748Reform - Revenge - Aggression?; 12. The modernization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the age of Enlightened Absolutism 1740-1790; The reform of state and society; Population; State finances; Economy; 13. Army and society; Recruitment reforms and the 'militarization' of the Habsburg Monarchy; Army strength and structure; Professionalization and modernization; The outsiders: Hungary, Lombardy, Belgium and the Tyrol; The Military Border; 14. The Seven Years War 1756-1763; The diplomatic revolution and the coming of the Seven Years War; Military operations 1756-1762 |
The 'miracle of the House of Brandenburg' |
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UNINA9910463284003321 |
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Beauvoir Simone de <1908-1986.> |
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Political writings / / Simone de Beauvoir ; edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann ; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir |
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Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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1 online resource (x, 394 p. ) |
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Aging - Economic aspects - France |
Fires - France - Méru |
Arab-Israeli conflict |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Margaret A. Simons -- Political reporting from Spain, Portugal, and the United States / introduction by Eleanore Holveck -- Must we burn sade? / introduction by Debra Bergoffen -- Right-wing thought today / introduction by Sonia Kruks -- Merleau-ponty and pseudo-sartreanism / introduction by William Wilkerson -- Preface to Djamila Boupacha / introduction by Julien S. Murphy -- In France today, killing goes unpunished / introduction by Karen L. Shelby -- Essays on Israel and the holocaust / introduction by Susan Rubin Suleiman -- A walk through the land of old age / introduction by Oliver Davis. |
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'Political Writings' offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. |
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