THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to t heir empire, while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the challenges of governing Eur opes second largest state. In the decades before and after its dissolution, some observers belittled the Habsburg Empire as a dysfu nctional pa...[Read more]