Title Statements
- 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:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1994
Notes
Supercedes the 1976 ed. of Area handbook for Austria, coauthored by Eugene K. Keefe [and others].
"Research completed December 1993."
The Physical Object
- Description:xxxiii, 314 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0844408298, 9780844408293
- oclc:ocm30664988
- LC Classification:DB17
- Dewey Decimal:943
Table of Contents
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…
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