Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Imperial and Postcolonial Settings
- 1 Building Nation-Empires in the Eighteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
- 2 Nations and Nationalisms in the Late Ottoman Empire
- 3 The Dutch Empire
- 4 The Habsburg Monarchy
- 5 The British Empire
- 6 The French Empire
- 7 Germany as a “Global Nation,” 1840–1930
- 8 The Russian and Soviet Empire
- 9 The Japanese Empire
- 10 American Internationalism
- 11 The Indian Subcontinent: From Raj to Partition
- 12 Middle Eastern and North African Nationalisms
- 13 African Nationalisms
- 14 Bringing Empires Back in: The Imperial Origins of Nations in Indochina
- Conclusion to Part I
- Part II Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities
- Part III Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices
- Index
- References
4 - The Habsburg Monarchy
from Part I - Imperial and Postcolonial Settings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Imperial and Postcolonial Settings
- 1 Building Nation-Empires in the Eighteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
- 2 Nations and Nationalisms in the Late Ottoman Empire
- 3 The Dutch Empire
- 4 The Habsburg Monarchy
- 5 The British Empire
- 6 The French Empire
- 7 Germany as a “Global Nation,” 1840–1930
- 8 The Russian and Soviet Empire
- 9 The Japanese Empire
- 10 American Internationalism
- 11 The Indian Subcontinent: From Raj to Partition
- 12 Middle Eastern and North African Nationalisms
- 13 African Nationalisms
- 14 Bringing Empires Back in: The Imperial Origins of Nations in Indochina
- Conclusion to Part I
- Part II Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities
- Part III Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices
- Index
- References
Summary
In the century of nationalism, the House of Habsburg ruled over a vast territory in East Central Europe. Second only to Russia in size on the European continent, the Habsburg lands stretched from the Alps to the foothills of the eastern Carpathians and from the shores of the Adriatic to the Sudetes mountain range on the border with Saxony. The core of this territory in the Alps, corresponding roughly to what is today Austria and Slovenia, had been ruled by the Habsburgs from the High Middle Ages. In 1526, the Habsburgs made a decisive step to become East Central Europe’s leading power by acquiring the Bohemian and the Hungarian crowns. After one and a half centuries of warfare against the Ottoman Empire, the long eighteenth century witnessed the Habsburgs’ decisive eastern expansion. First, at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they reconquered central Hungary and Transylvania from the Ottomans.
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