Readership: Scholars and students of Central European history.
R. J. W. Evans, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford
"The only possible responses to this marvellous book are admiration and gratitude." - Derek Beales, Economic History Review
"Interlinked essays of enormous learning and suggestiveness...all are meticulously reintroduced, reannotated and cross referenced...Few self-proclaimed 'intellectual' historians can boast as sure a grasp as Evans of the politico-military-economic structures enabling cultural activities." - Alex Drace-Francis, Central Europe,
Chronology 1: The Habsburgs and Central Europe 1683-1723 I: Absolutist Enlightenment 2: Maria Theresa and Hungary 3: The Origins of Enlightenment in the Habsburg Lands 4: Culture and Authority in Central Europe 1683-1806 5: The Habsburg Monarchy and Bohemia 1526-1848 II: The Rise of Nations 6: Nationality in East-Central Europe: Perception and Definition before 1848 7: Frontiers and National Identites in Central Europe 8: Joseph II and Nationality in the Habsburg Lands 9: Religion and Nation in Hungary 1790-1849 III: Regions and their Interplay 10: The Habsburgs and the Hungarian Problem 1790-1848 11: Empire and Kingdoms: Hungary and Bohemia in the Habsburg Monarchy 1741-1871 12: The Transylvanian Saxons: A German Diaspora 13: Hungary and the German Lands in the Nineteenth Century IV: The Revolution and Beyond 14: Hungary in the Habsburg Monarchy 1840-1867: A Study of Perceptions 15: From Confederation to Compromise: The Austrian Experiment 1849-1867 16: Central Europe: The History of an Idea Bibliography Index
