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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 | |