The Habsburg Empire: A New History

by Pieter M. Judson

Book Overview

In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to "their empire," while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Europe's second largest state. In the decades before and after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047761
• ISBN13: 9780674047761
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard Universi
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.1"