Austria’s Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797 (Mode Wars In Perspective)

by: Michael Hochedlinger (Author)

Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2016

Language: English

Print Length: 140 pages

ISBN-10: 1138173614

ISBN-13: 9781138173613

Book Description

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 mode 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 mode Austrian history.
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 mode 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 mode Austrian history.