The Sinews of Habsburg Power
Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 January 2018
- ISBN 9780198809395
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages482 pages
- Size 243x164x33 mm
- Weight 876 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 black and white illustrations 40
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Short description:
The Sinews of Habsburg Power traces the development of the central European Habsburg monarchy into one of early modern Europe's leading powers. In particular, it looks to the domestic foundations of that power, which were upheld by the growth of a permanent standing army.
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The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to as many as half a million in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Habsburg monarchy participated in shifting international constellations of rivalry from western Europe to the Near East and in some two dozen, partly overlapping armed conflicts. Raising forces of such magnitude constituted a central task of Habsburg government, one that ultimately required the cooperation of society and its elites.
The monarchy's composite-territorial structures in the guise of the Lower Austrian Estates -- a leading representative body and privileged corps -- formed a vital, if changing, element underlying Habsburg international success and resilience. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy below the river Enns (the historic designation of Lower Austria) was geographically, politically, and financially a key Habsburg possession. Fiscal-military exigency induced the Estates to take part in new and evolving arrangements of power that served the purposes of government; in turn the Estates were able in previously little-understood ways and within narrowing boundaries to preserve vital interests in a changing world.
The Estates survived because they were necessary, not only thanks to their increasing financial potency, but also because they offered a politically viable way of exacting ever-larger quantities of money, men, and other resources from local society. These circumstances would persist as ruling became more regularized, formalized, and homogenized, and as the very understanding of the Estates as a social and political phenomenon was evolving.
The implications of Godsey's arguments ... extend well beyond the confines of Lower Austria. The book is highly suggestive on a whole range of important aspects of early modern European history. Any early modern historian would benefit from reading this outstanding work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Estates of Lower Austria
Organization and Officeholders, c. 1650-1764
Evolving Fiscal Foundations, c. 1650-1730
A Commissariat for the Standing Army, c. 1650-1764
Toward a 'Military, Cameral, and Debt System', 1733-48
Reform, Credit, and Compromise, 1749-63
'Fifteen Years of Military Government', 1763-80
'He is working to abolish all Estates', 1780-90
Renovation and Representation after 1790
Resilience in the Contest with France, 1792-1815
Conclusion
Appendix
Genealogical Tables
