The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1918 by Mason, John W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents An Introduction to the Series Note on referencing system Acknowledgements Foreword Note on the Second Edition Map: South-eastern Europe, showing the main national groups PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND

1. THE HABSBURG MONARCHY IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

2. 1867: THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE

PART TWO: DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

3. THE NATIONALITY QUESTION

The Germans The Czechs The Poles and Ruthenians The Slovenes and Italians The Magyars The Rumanians and Slovaks The Croats and Serbs The Jews

4. THE ECONOMY

5. THE POLITICS OF DUALISM: 1867–1914

Liberal predominance: 1867–79 The ‘iron ring’ and the collapse of liberalism: 1879–93 The Social Democrats The Christian Socials The Pan-Germans The end of parliamentary government: 1893–1914 Austro-Hungarian conflict: 1903–14

6. VIENNA: CULTURAL CENTRE OF THE EMPIRE

The cultural rebellion against liberalism The 1870s The 1890s: ‘Young Vienna’ The post-1900 period: Kraus, Loos and Schoenberg Vienna: the birth of a ‘modern’ outlook

PART THREE: FOREIGN AFFAIRS

7. THE DUAL ALLIANCE: 1867–1906

Beust and Andrássy, 1867–79 Austria and the alliance system, 1879–95 Austro-Russian co-operation, 1895–1906

8. THE DRIFT TO WAR: 1906–1914

Aehrenthal and the policy of expansion, 1906–12 Berchtold and the Balkan crises, 1912–13 Sarajevo and the outbreak of war

9. ‘WAR GUILT’ AND THE SOUTH SLAV QUESTION

The Habsburg Monarchy and Serbia The Austro-Hungarian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina Dualism and the South Slav problem

10. WORLD WAR ONE AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE EMPIRE

The Austro-Hungarian army and the war The nationalities and the war 1917 and 1918: military defeat and disintegration

PART FOUR: ASSESSMENT PART FIVE: DOCUMENTS Bibliography Index Related titles