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The Dynasty and the Imperial Idea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Robert A. Kann
Robert A. Kann
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Rutgers University
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It would be much easier to state what the relationship between the concepts of the “dynasty” and the “imperial idea” does not mean than to explain what it is supposed to mean. Before we can make any serious efforts to do so, we must, first of all, come to a clear understanding of the exact meaning of some of the terms involved. In English-speaking areas the word “empire” is generally understood to mean “an extended territory, usually comprised of a group of nations, states or peoples under the control or domination of a single sovereign power.” Frequently the determining factors are the assumption of a master-subject relationship between “a dominating conquering people and the conquered people,” either by way of a confederacy, in which “one strong member dominates its confederates,” or by even more direct subordination. Furthermore, the notion of an empire is generally associated with an area of considerable size and frequently “with the supreme or absolute power especially of an emperor.1

Type
The Centripetal Forces in the Monarchy
Information
Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 11 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1967

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13 According to the official statistics, in 1910 the Germans, Magyars, and Italians comprised 46.1 percent of the population of Austria-Hungary. The Slavs and Rumanians made up 53.6 percent.

14 It should be noted that after the mid-nineteenth century such Latin nationalities as the Italians and Rumanians no longer played any important role in this respect, for their center of gravity lay outside the monarchy.

15 Even rather large political entities like the Republic of Venice or the United Netherlands would not have qualified in this respect even in their heyday, since they lacked the comprehensiveness associated with the imperial idea as defined in the beginning of this study.

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22 Kann, Werden und Zerfall des Habsburgerreiches, pp. 80–87, 121, and 135.