Description
This course concentrates on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the origins of nationalism in Central Europe, baroque art and architecture, and fin-de-siecle Vienna. The current schedule has lectures on: the Habsburg Dynasty; the Lands and Peoples of the Monarchy; Baroque Triumphalism; Survival and Reform under Maria Theresa; Joseph II and Enlightened Despotism; the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Challenge; Metternich; Magyar and Czech National Awakenings; Galicia and the Pre-March; the 1848 Revolutions; Neo-Absolutism; the 1867 Settlement; Nationalism and Politics in the Czech Lands; Austrian Liberalism; Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Autonomous Galicia; Social Democracy; The Habsburg Monarchy as a Cultural Idea; the South Slav Question; the Great War and the Dissolution of the Monarchy; and a final revision lecture. A principal aim of the course is to introduce students to the outstanding secondary literature on the history of the Monarchy.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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