Author :
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Sociology, Military
ISBN :
Author : Istvan Deak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1990-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0199923280
In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin, education, training, code of honor, lifestyle, and political role of the Habsburg officers. Simultaneously conservative and liberal, the officer corps, originally composed mainly of noblemen, willingly coopted thousands of commoners--among them an extraordinary number of Jews. Even during World War I, the army and its officers endured, surviving the dissolution of the state in October 1918, if only by a few days. The end of the multinational Habsburg army also marked the end of confessional and ethnic tolerance in Central and East Central Europe.
Author : Gunther E. Rothenberg
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9780930888046
Selections from papers presented at conferences organized by Brooklyn College and City University of New York Center for European Studies.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1351125974
Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem, probing the nature of warfare throughout Europe from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth.
Author : Eugene Miakinkov
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1487503547
War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority. While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the military exists. Eugene Miakinkov's research addresses this gap and challenges the assumption that the military was an unadaptable and vertical institution. Using archival sources, military manuals, essays, memoirs, and letters, the author demonstrates how the Russian militaires philosophes operationalized the Enlightenment by turning thought into reality.
Author : "International Committee For Social Sciences Documentation"
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136749411
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential tool for librarians, academics and researchers wishing to be kept up to date with the published literature in the social sciences. IBSS is compiled in four divisions; Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, and Political Science. This is Volume XXIX of the International bibliography of political science as of 1980.
Author : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1135365911
A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were feared by western European states and the focus of much military concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and North Africa, and for military historians.
Author : Scott Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1995-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0313031312
Friedrich Beck was the single most important figure in the transformation of the inept Habsburg military into the modern military state that would wage World War I. He correctly perceived that only an elite body of officers responsible for war planning and preparation could provide lasting security for the Austro-Hungarian empire. After firmly establishing the general staff as an institution, Beck led war planning to counter threats from Russia, Italy, and the Balkans; and spearheaded a vast rebuilding of the rail network. While his rise to power marked a return to the favorite system of military administration of the early Franz Joseph period, Beck proved himself a man with real military ability that revolutionized an army.
Author : Michael Hochedlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 131788793X
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.
