Integrates the revisionist scholarship on the Habsburg Monarchy of the last thirty years with the insights gleaned from newer methodologies such as gender history, cultural history, the history of everyday life, and transnational, transimperial, and global history
Emphasizes contingency and alternative possibilities, as opposed to the inevitability of Imperial collapse
Pays equal attention to the outer rings of the Empire – places like Silesia, Dalmatia, Galicia, Bukovina – as to its capital cities, integrating diverse regional experiences into a common, overarching narrative
Highlights the transregional experiences of women, workers, and children to emphasize the close interconnections between the social and cultural history of the empire to its political, economic, and military history
The world’s eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914.
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