Readership: Scholars and students of Central European history.
R.J.W. Evans, Regius Professor of History and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
Review(s) from previous edition"'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
