and it became the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867 with the Dual Monarchy system. This policy gave Hungary much leeway, but it did not meet the expectations of other ethnic groups in the empire.

Austria-Hungary was, by comparison, smaller and weaker. Historically, the Habsburg Empire was most similar in many ways to France, which had similar industrial and agrarian characteristics. In Central ...

Though these books stop at 1914, they have a contemporary relevance by being in varying degrees concerned with Palacky's proposition, "If Austria did not exist it would be necessary to invent her." Dr ...