Michael Hochedlinger

Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy.

Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna's military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317887935
• Artikelnr.: 44477624

Autorenporträt

Michael Hochedlinger is Senior Archivist at the Austrian State Archives. He is an expert on the history of the early modern Habsburg army.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The belated great power
Part 1 Modest Origins - the Habsburg Monarchy During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 1 The domestic foundations
Chapter 2 The primacy of power politics
Chapter 3 Home defence
Chapter 4 The standing army
Part 2 Austria's 'age of heroes' 1683-1733
Chapter 5 The Turkish War 1683-1699
Chapter 6 The Nine Years War 1689-1697
Chapter 7 The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
Chapter 8 Renewed expansion
Part 3 The crisis of a great power 1733-1748
Chapter 9 Diplomatic reverses and military defeats
Chapter 10 Squaring the circle or how to administer and defend a territorial giant
Chapter 11 The War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748
Part 4 Reform - revenge - aggression
Chapter 12 The modernization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the age of Enlightened Absolutism 1740-1790
Chapter 13 Army and society
Chapter 14 The Seven Years War 1756-1763
Chapter 15 Peacetime expansion in the East 1764-1775
Chapter 16 Streamlining the Habsburg Monarchy
Chapter 17 The Russian maelstrom
Chapter 18 State crisis and recovery
Part 5 The revolutionary challenge 1789-1797
Chapter 19 From 'military promenade' to life-and-death struggle 1789-1794
Chapter 20 In search of compensations 1792-1795
Chapter 21 False Hopes 1796-1797 Prospect