![]() ![]() in History from Columbia University (1987). Before that he taught for 21 years at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations. ![]() Judson Product Details PAPERBACK 27.00 £23.95 24. Judson holds the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the European University Institute in Florence. His bracing account could provide an overarching alternative framework to guide the growing number o f narrower, more detailed revisionist histories o f the Habsburgs. Judson Harvard University Press The Habsburg Empire A New History Pieter M. The empire’s ability to inspire a transcendent identity and tolerate diversity should be the dominant lens through which its history is viewed, Judson argues. On the contrary, he argues, from the last hal f o f the eighteenth century (when Empress Maria Theresa instituted crucial reforms) until the empire’s demise in World War I, the Habsburg dynasty successfully enlisted a vast array o f territories and subjects in its enlightened “e ff orts to be a uni fi ed and unifying imperial state.” The monarchy’s legal reforms, institutional innovations, and cultural fl exibility created a symbiotic relationship between citizens-even the peasantry-and the regime, not least because whatever their linguistic and religious di ff erences, subjects were allowed to “appropriate” or “reinterpret” Vienna’s will in ways that served local interests. ![]() Judson turns on its head the traditional understanding o f the Habsburg empire as a decrepit anachronism doomed by the long-simmering nationalist urges o f disparate ethnic groups. ![]()
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