Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction: The belated great power -- Modest Origins - the Habsburg Monarchy During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 1. The domestic foundations -- The question of terminology -- The territorial and administrative configuration of the Habsburg Monarchy -- Limited absolutism: the provincial Estates -- Economy -- Finances -- 2. The primacy of power politics -- The instruments of foreign policy -- From domestic to foreign policy: the Habsburgs and the Reich after 1648 -- Geopolitical challenges and responses -- 3. Home defence -- Feudal levy and peasant militia in the Austro-Bohemian lands -- Hungary -- The Military Border (Militärgrenze) -- The contribution of the Reich -- 4. The standing army -- Origins and growth -- The High Command -- The officer corps -- Military administration -- Artillery -- Technical branches -- The guards -- Weaponry -- Military industries -- Uniforms -- Quarters and provisions -- Soldiers' families and the baggage train -- Military justice -- Religion -- Medical service and disabled soldiers -- Tactics, strategy and the primacy of logistics -- Austria's 'age of heroes' 1683-1733 -- 5. The Turkish War 1683-1699 -- The Kuruc rebellion -- The siege of Vienna -- The Habsburg counter-offensive -- 6. The Nine Years War 1689-1697 -- The 'reunions' -- The French invasion of Germany -- From stalemate to peace -- 7. The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 -- The Spanish inheritance -- The Italian peninsula -- Germany -- The Spanish Netherlands -- Spain -- The peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden 1713-1714 -- The Rákóczy rebellion 1703-1711 -- 8. Renewed expansion -- The Turkish War of 1716-1718 -- Trade expansion.

The Italian question 1717-1732 -- The crisis of a great power 1733-1748 -- 9. Diplomatic reverses and military defeats -- The Pragmatic Sanction -- The War of the Polish Succession 1733-1738 -- The Turkish War 1737-1739 -- 10. Squaring the circle or how to administer and defend a territorial giant -- The new provinces -- State finances -- The crisis of the army -- Austria goes to sea -- Extension, Crisis and early reforms of the Military Border -- 11. The War of the Austrian Succession 1740-1748 -- Finis Austriae? -- Austria's recovery -- War in Italy -- The second Silesian War 1744-1745 -- War In the Austrian Netherlands -- The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 1748 -- Reform - revenge - aggression? -- 12. The modernization of the Habsburg Monarchy in the age of Enlightened Absolutism 1740-1790 -- The reform of state and society -- Population -- State finances -- Economy -- 13. Army and society -- Recruitment reforms and the 'militarization' of the Habsburg Monarchy -- Army strength and structure -- Professionalization and modernization -- The outsiders: Hungary, Lombardy, Belgium and the Tyrol -- The Military Border -- 14. The Seven Years War 1756-1763 -- The diplomatic revolution and the coming of the Seven Years War -- Military operations 1756- 1762 -- The 'miracle of the House of Brandenburg' -- 15. Peacetime expansion in the East 1764-1775 -- The First Partition of Poland -- The annexation of the Bukovina 1774-1775 -- 16. Streamlining the Habsburg Monarchy -- The Austrian paradox: defensive aggression -- The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778-1779 -- The Bavarian exchange project 1784-1785 -- 17. The Russian maelstrom -- The Austro-Russian alliance of 1781 -- The 'Greek Project' and the Crimean crisis 1782-1784 -- Austria's last Turkish War 1788-1790 -- 18. State crisis and recovery -- Peace at all costs -- Revolt and secession -- War on two fronts?.

The second 'diplomatic revolution' -- The revolutionary challenge 1789-1797 -- 19. From 'military promenade' to life-and-death struggle, 1789-1794 -- The road to war -- The beginning of the revolutionary wars 1792-1794 -- 20. In search of compensations 1792-1795 -- The French contagion -- The Bavarian exchange project and the Second Partition of Poland 1792-1793 -- The Third Partition of Poland 1795 -- The peace of Basle 1795 -- 21. False hopes 1796- 1797 -- The Italian card -- The road to peace 1796-1797 -- Why the Austrians lost -- Prospect -- Index.

The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy. Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna's military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.

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