![]() The author starts from the principle that the study of the Habsburg Monarchy has for too long suffered from an analytical bias: scholars have regularly considered the Empire as something external to the nationalities that suffered under its oppression. The choice of this chronological framework is in itself innovative because it invites us to consider how the Hapsburg legacy survived well after Emperor Charles’s formal renunciation of the throne. ![]() In its wake, this period witnessed the installation of a multitude of successor states in Europe that were strongly marked by its imprint. ![]() His study begins with the advent of the great Maria Theresa and the numerous reforms that took place during her reign and ends a few years after the fall of the Monarchy, in the 1920s. The reader should not expect a new account of the emperors and kings who reigned in Vienna or Budapest, because these pages reveal a deeply stimulating reflection on the notion of empire in the Danube space. ![]() The book was published in 2018 and has just been translated into French by Perrin Editions. It is indeed an “unpublished history” that the Flemish historian Pieter Judson dedicates to the Habsburg Empire. ![]()
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