The Habsburg Empire: A New History

ISBN: 0674986768

Author: Judson, Pieter M.

Condition: New

A EuropeNow Editors PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearPieter M. Judsons book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.-Tim Blanning, Wall Street JournalThis is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts.-Tony Barber, Financial TimesSpectacularly revisionist Judson argues thatthe empire was a force for progress and modernity This is a bold and refreshing book Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state.-A. W. Purdue, Times Higher EducationJudsons reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit.-Annabelle Chapman, Prospect