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4 - The Habsburg Monarchy

from Part I - Imperial and Postcolonial Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Bálint Varga
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

In the century of nationalism, the House of Habsburg ruled over a vast territory in East Central Europe. Second only to Russia in size on the European continent, the Habsburg lands stretched from the Alps to the foothills of the eastern Carpathians and from the shores of the Adriatic to the Sudetes mountain range on the border with Saxony. The core of this territory in the Alps, corresponding roughly to what is today Austria and Slovenia, had been ruled by the Habsburgs from the High Middle Ages. In 1526, the Habsburgs made a decisive step to become East Central Europe’s leading power by acquiring the Bohemian and the Hungarian crowns. After one and a half centuries of warfare against the Ottoman Empire, the long eighteenth century witnessed the Habsburgs’ decisive eastern expansion. First, at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they reconquered central Hungary and Transylvania from the Ottomans.

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Habsburg EmpireEnlightenmentromanticismnational movementspublic spherenational indifferenceGermansSlavsHungariansRomanians
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 64 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Judson, P. M., Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Judson, P. M., The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
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King, Jeremy, Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848–1948 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maxwell, Alexander, Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reill, D. K., Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).Google Scholar
Shanes, Joshua, Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stauter-Halsted, Keely, The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Trencsényi, Balázs, Janowski, Maciej, Baar, Monika, Falina, Maria, and Kopecek, Michal (eds.), A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vol. 1: Negotiating Modernity in the “Long Nineteenth Century” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Varga, Bálint, The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary (Oxford: Berghahn, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wingfield, N. M., Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Zayarnyuk, Andriy, Framing the Ukrainian Peasantry in Habsburg Galicia, 1846–1914 (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2013).Google Scholar

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