Binding: Paperback
Description: A Europe Now Editor's Pick A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements especially in the 18th century is rather starry - eyed it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid elegant full of surprising and illuminating details it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history. Tim Blanning Wall Street Journal This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation - states that replaced it in central Europe. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law administration science and the arts. Tony Barber Financial Times Spectacularly revisionist Judson argues that the empire was a force for progress and modernity This is a bold and refreshing book Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state. A. W. Purdue Times Higher Education Judson's reflections on nations states and institutions are of broader interest not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit. Annabelle Chapman Prospect
Title: The Habsburg Empire A New History
Author(s): Judson Pieter M.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Barcode: 9780674986763
Pages: 592 Pages, 40 Halftones, 7 Maps
Publication Date: 10/1/2018
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700