Austria: a country study

by McClave, David E. Solsten, Eric

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Full title :Austria : a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Eric Solsten and David E. McClave.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Federal Research Division
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994

Notes

Revised edition of: Area handbook for Austria. 1st ed. 1976.

"Research completed December 1993."

The Physical Object

Description:xxxiii, 314 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0844408298, 9780844408293
oclc:on1013295501
LC Classification:DB17
Dewey Decimal:943

The Alpine-Danubian region before the Habsburg dynasty. The Celtic and Roman eras ; The early medieval era ; The Holy Roman Empire and the Duchy of Austria -- Rise of the Habsburg empire. The Habsburg dynasty in the late medieval era ; Territorial expansion, division, and consolidation ; The Protestant Reformation in the Habsburg lands ; The Turkish threat -- The counter-reformation and the Thirty Years' War. Division and rebellion ; The Thirty Years' War, 1618-48 ; The peace of Westphalia -- The baroque era. Political and religious consolidation under Leopold ; The Turkish wars and the siege of Vienna ; The war of the Spanish succession ; The pragmatic sanction and the war of the Austrian succession, 1740-48 -- The reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. Baroque absolutism and enlightened despotism ; The strategic impact of the reform era -- The Habsburg empire and the French revolution. The Napoleonic wars ; The congress of Vienna -- Austria in the age of Metternich. International developments, 1815-48 ; Domestic policies -- The revolution of 1848 and neoabsolutism. Revolutionary rise and fall ; The failure of neoabsolutism ; Loss of leadership in Germany -- Austria-Hungary to t…