Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797

The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy.

Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna's military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.

Author: Michael Hochedlinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/31/2003
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.30w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780582290846

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 982

About the Author

Michael Hochedlinger is Senior Archivist at the Austrian State Archives. He is an expert on the history of the early modern Habsburg army.