出版社：Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
摘要：Pieter Judson’s history of the Habsburg Empire from the 18th century to the end of WWI offers a grand and potentially ground-breaking retelling of modern Central and East Central European history.Starting with the administrative and institutional ‘experiments’ of Maria Theresa and her sons Joseph II and Leopold II in the 1700s, the study concludes with a critical discussion of the legacy of Habsburg laws and imperial practices within the successor states created in 1919 and 1920.Along the way, Judson offers insightful and compelling reinterpretations of familiar periods and events like the Metternich era, the revolutions of 1848–1849, the dualist settlement of 1867, and the other so-called ‘nationalist settlements’ after 1900.Though clearly a work of history, Judson’s study nevertheless has much to offer geographers, and in particular historical geographers whose research focuses not just on the geography of the region, but also on geographies of empire and the relationship between imperialism, identity formation, and knowledge production more generally.
