![]() This is the history we have been waiting for since the empire disappeared from Europe’s map. In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. "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. Judson forever banishes images of the Habsburg Empire as a decrepit and declining anachronism. Strongly revisionist and effortlessly wide-ranging, Judsons book offers a strikingly original interpretation of Austria-Hungary as an empire rather than a. ![]() Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state." In Robert Musils The Man Without Qualities, a book that encapsulates like no other the ineffable muddle of the Habsburg Empire, the eminent statesman Count. Judson argues that.the empire was a force for progress and modernity. 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." "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. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history." ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ![]()
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