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| List of Maps | |
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| Acknowledgement | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Metternich and his System, 1815-48 | |
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| Metternich and his critics | |
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| Metternich and his defenders | |
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| Metternich and domestic policy | |
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| Metternich: a verdict | |
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| 1848: the Causes | |
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| The secret societies | |
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| A police state? | |
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| The liberal opposition | |
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| A revolt of the nobility? | |
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| Economic growth in Metternich's Austria | |
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| The economic and social background to 1848 | |
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| The fall of Metternich and the outbreak of revolution | |
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| The Failure of the Revolutions of 1848 | |
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| The pattern of revolution | |
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| The Revolution in Hungary | |
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| The Revolution in Lombardy-Venetia | |
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| Disobedience and the Camarilla | |
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| From the Counter-Revolution to the Compromise | |
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| Schwarzenberg | |
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| Schwarzenberg and domestic policy | |
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| Schwarzenberg's German policy | |
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| The economic consequences of 1848 | |
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| Buol and Habsburg foreign policy | |
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| Rechberg, Mensdorff and the road to Sadowa | |
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| The Dual Monarchy | |
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| The Compromise of 1867 | |
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| The economics of Dualism | |
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| A backward Hungary? | |
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| The nationality problem in Hungary | |
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| The nationality problem in Cisleithania | |
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| The Road to Disaster | |
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| Domestic aspects of Habsburg foreign policy | |
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| The occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
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| Austria-Hungary as a factor for peace or war in Europe | |
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| Austria-Hungary and the First World War | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Reflections on the Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire | |
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| Metternich's Austria as a Josephinist state | |
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| The Catholic Church in Austria during the Metternich era | |
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| Francis I and the rule of law | |
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| The Habsburg welfare state | |
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| The European empires | |
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| Political repression in the European empires | |
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| Economic growth and social welfare | |
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| Intellectual vitality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Chronology of Events | |
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| Habsburg Foreign Ministers, 1809-1918 | |
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| Population and Nationalities in the Empire, 1843-1910 | |
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| Maps | |
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| Index | |