Austria's Wars of Emergence, 16 - Hochedlinger, Michael;
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