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The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. This book tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe’s most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare. It shows how the Habsburgs played the long game in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empi ... More
Keywords: Habsburg Empire, Austria, Habsburgs, geopolitics, middle Europe, Austrian Habsburgs
Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691196442 |
Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691196442.001.0001 |
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