The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 : A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. Textbook Paperback. 0226791459 Approximately 25 pages with underlining/yellow highlighting. Front cover creased. First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of nineteenth-century European history. Not only a chronological report of actions and changes, Taylor's work is a provocative exploration into the historical process of the most eventful hundred years of the Habsburg monarchy. "This book needed to be written, and Mr. Taylor has written it brilliantly. It is an indispensable work for understanding not merely the Habsburg monarchy but Europe as a whole in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The thesis that the Habsburg monarchy could not have survived, that it did not avoid opportunities to maintain itself because no such opportunities appeared -this is sustained with a wealth of detail drawn from every aspect of life. The author's ability to marshal the materials into a clear analysis of each major event keeps the reader in a state of constant excitement.... One will never think of Austria, in fact, of Europe, in the same way as before.... We are now in the midst of reinterpreting Europe's career in the nineteenth/century; this volume is one of the pioneer works in,our doing so.... The originality of insight and the compactness and precision of expression are so beautifully sustained that admiration of the author's achievement mounts."-Eugene N. Anderson 280 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1976.
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