| Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War Contributor(s): Godsey, William D., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557531404 ISBN-13: 9781557531407 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Political Science | World - General - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 327.436 |
| LCCN: 98-46374 |
| Series: Central European Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.74" W x 8.54" (1.09 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period. |
Contributor Bio(s): Godsey, William D.: - William D. Godsey, Jr., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European History in Mainz and the author of a number of articles on the social history of the Habsburg Empire. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His dissertation on the Austro-Hungarian foreign office won the Austrian Cultural Institute Prize in 1996. Godsey is currently writing a book on social transformation in central Europe from the early modern period to the modern era. |