A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918

preface; TOWARD THE UNION OF THE HABSBURG LANDS: the political evolution of the alpine hereditary lands before 1526; social and cultural conditions in the hereditary lands before 1526; the evolution of the eastern crowns and their sttus at the time of the unino of 1526-1527; TURKS AND PROTESTANTS (1526-1648): the beginning of political integration; sovereignt in the austro-german and eastern habsburg lands; principles of foreign policy; the turkish wars; the thirty years' war; protestantism and the habsburg cause; AN EMPIRE EVOLVES AND ASSERTS ITESELF (1648-1748): common succession and common institutions; resumption of the turkish wars; hungary, transylvania, croatia, and the habsvurg scepter; the struggle about the balance of power; stalemate and decline; the great-power position is tested; LATE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE AGE IN THE HABSBURG LANDS (1526-1740): over-all issues; reformation and counter reformation; socioeconomic trends; estates and princely absolutism; administration; judicial system; defense system; church-state relations; cultural evolution; AN EMPIRE REASSERTS ITSELF: (1740-1815): foreign policy (1740-1792); the reform era; feudalism versus centralism in the reform era; economic policies; josephinism; church-state relations; education; the peasant question; hungary and the end of the first reform era; foreign policy (1792-1815); domestic administration of francis 1 (1792-1815); STANDSTILL, DECLINE AND STABILIZATION (1815-1879): foreign policy (1815-1879); domestic affairs from 1815 to the revolution of 1848-1849; the revoution of 1848-1849; neoabsolutism; transition to constitutional government (1860-1867); Domestic affairs (1860-1879); the end of an era; CULTURAL TRENDS FROM LATE ENLIGHTENMENT TO LIBERALISM (FROM MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO 1860'S): the austro-german orbit; the magyars; the czechs; the slovaks; the poles; the ruthenians; the southern slavs; the latins; summary; DECLINE AND DISCORD (1879-1914): politics in austria-hungary; cisleithanian austria; hungary; economic developments in austria-hungary; WORLD WAR AND DISSOLUTION (1914-1918): conduct of war; domestic developmets in austria-hungary; the conflict between the national groups comes to a head; a final reflection on the dissolution process; NEW BEGINNINGS: CULTURAL TRENDS FROM THE 1860'S TO 1918: the latins (italians and roumanians); the ruthenians and poles; the serbs, croats, slovenes; the slovaks; the czechs; the magyars; the austro-german orbit; conclusions; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY: the habsburg empire, general works; literature on the history of national groups.