Table of Contents

Chronology
1: The Habsburgs and Central Europe 1683-1723
I: Absolutist Enlightenment
2: Maria Theresa and Hungary
3: The Origins of Enlightenment in the Habsburg Lands
4: Culture and Authority in Central Europe 1683-1806
5: The Habsburg Monarchy and Bohemia 1526-1848
II: The Rise of Nations
6: Nationality in East-Central Europe: Perception and Definition before 1848
7: Frontiers and National Identites in Central Europe
8: Joseph II and Nationality in the Habsburg Lands
9: Religion and Nation in Hungary 1790-1849
III: Regions and their Interplay
10: The Habsburgs and the Hungarian Problem 1790-1848
11: Empire and Kingdoms: Hungary and Bohemia in the Habsburg Monarchy 1741-1871
12: The Transylvanian Saxons: A German Diaspora
13: Hungary and the German Lands in the Nineteenth Century
IV: The Revolution and Beyond
14: Hungary in the Habsburg Monarchy 1840-1867: A Study of Perceptions
15: From Confederation to Compromise: The Austrian Experiment 1849-1867
16: Central Europe: The History of an Idea
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

R. J. W. Evans has taught at Oxford since 1969, and since 1997 has been Regius Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Oriel College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the British Academy, and the Academia Europaea.

Reviews

The only possible responses to this marvellous book are admiration and gratitude. Derek Beales, Economic History Review Interlinked essays of enormous learning and suggestiveness...all are meticulously reintroduced, reannotated and cross referenced...Few self-proclaimed 'intellectual' historians can boast as sure a grasp as Evans of the politico-military-economic structures enabling cultural activities. Alex Drace-Francis, Central Europe,