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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828597803321

Autore

Hochedlinger Michael

Titolo

Austria's wars of emergence : war, state and society in the Habsburg monarchy, 1683-1797 / / Michael Hochedlinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxfordshire, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

©2003

ISBN

1-317-88792-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Collana

Modern Wars In Perspective

Disciplina

943.6032

Soggetti

Austria History 1519-1740

Austria History 1740-1789

Austria History 1789-1815

Austria History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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'