Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Paying for the Liberal State
- Introduction: Paying for the Liberal State
- 1 Creating Legitimacy: Administering Taxation in Britain, 1815–1914
- 2 The Development of Public Finance in the Netherlands, 1815–1914
- 3 The Apogee and Fall of the French Rentier Regime, 1801–1914
- 4 The Evolution of Public Finances in Nineteenth-Century Germany
- 5 Public Finance in Austria-Hungary, 1820–1913
- 6 The Rise of the Fiscal State in Sweden, 1800–1914
- 7 Always on the Brink: Piedmont and Italy
- 8 Public Finance and the Rise of the Liberal State in Spain, 1808–1914
- 9 Public Finance in Portugal, 1796–1910
- 10 Conclusion: The Monetary, Fiscal, and Political Architecture of Europe, 1815–1914
- Index
- References
5 - Public Finance in Austria-Hungary, 1820–1913
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Paying for the Liberal State
- Introduction: Paying for the Liberal State
- 1 Creating Legitimacy: Administering Taxation in Britain, 1815–1914
- 2 The Development of Public Finance in the Netherlands, 1815–1914
- 3 The Apogee and Fall of the French Rentier Regime, 1801–1914
- 4 The Evolution of Public Finances in Nineteenth-Century Germany
- 5 Public Finance in Austria-Hungary, 1820–1913
- 6 The Rise of the Fiscal State in Sweden, 1800–1914
- 7 Always on the Brink: Piedmont and Italy
- 8 Public Finance and the Rise of the Liberal State in Spain, 1808–1914
- 9 Public Finance in Portugal, 1796–1910
- 10 Conclusion: The Monetary, Fiscal, and Political Architecture of Europe, 1815–1914
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Austria-Hungary, which included the complete territories of today's Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (from 1878 to 1908 onward), and parts of Poland, Ukraine, Romania, and Italy, was a monarchical union of otherwise separate lands at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and it was a dual monarchy consisting of two constitutional countries (in short, Austria and Hungary) and a common land (Bosnia and Herzegovina) at the eve of the First World War. In 1910, Austria had about 29 million inhabitants; Hungary, 21 million; and Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2 million. Up to 1867, the then so-called Austrian Empire (Kaisertum Österreich) passed through a process of centralization and unification opposed by regional forces that worked toward autonomy or independence, notably in the Italian provinces and Hungary, and led to fundamental changes in territory and constitution in the 1860s. Throughout the period, conflicts between the dominating ethnicities (Germans and Hungarians) and other nationalities remained a disintegrating force, which eventually led to the end of Austria-Hungary.
The territorial and constitutional changes of the 1860s were most important for the fiscal history of Austria. In 1860 and 1866, respectively, following the Italian war of 1859 and the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, Austria lost its Italian provinces of Lombardy and Veneto, which together had formed the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom.
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- Paying for the Liberal StateThe Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe, pp. 132 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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