The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire 1815‒1918, 2nd Edition

The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire 1815‒1918, 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgement
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
	Notes and References
1 Metternich and his System, 1815‒48
	Metternich and his critics
	Metternich and his defenders
	Metternich and domestic policy
	Metternich: a verdict
	Notes and References
2 1848: the Causes
	The secret societies
	A police state?
	The liberal opposition
	A revolt of the nobility?
	Economic growth in Metternich\'s Austria
	The economic and social background to 1848
	The fall of Metternich and the outbreak of revolution
	Notes and References
3 The Failure of the Revolutions of 1848
	The pattern of revolution
	The Revolution in Hungary
	The Revolution in Lombardy-Venetia
	Disobedience and the Camarilla
	Notes and References
4 From the Counter-Revolution to the Compromise
	Schwarzenberg
	Schwarzenberg and domestic policy
	Schwarzenberg\'s German policy
	The economic consequences of 1848
	Buol and Habsburg foreign policy
	Rechberg, Mensdorff and the road to Sadowa
	Notes and References
5 The Dual Monarchy
	The Compromise of 1867
	The economics of Dualism
	A backward Hungary?
	The nationality problem in Hungary
	The nationality problem in Cisleithania
	Notes and References
6 The Road to Disaster
	Domestic aspects of Habsburg foreign policy
	The occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
	Austria-Hungary as a factor for peace or war in Europe
	Austria-Hungary and the First World War
	Conclusions
	Notes and References
7 Reflections on the Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire
	Metternich\'s Austria as a Josephinist state
	The Catholic Church in Austria during the Metternich era
	Francis I and the rule of law
	The Habsburg welfare state
	The European empires
	Political repression in the European empires
	Economic growth and social welfare
	Intellectual vitality
	Conclusion
	Notes and References
Appendix
	1 Chronology of Events
	2 Habsburg Foreign Ministers, 1809-1918
	3 Population and Nationalities in the Empire, 1843-1910
Maps
Index