{"product_id":"the-habsburg-empire-a-new-history","title":"The Habsburg Empire: A New History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Pick\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Tim Blanning, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Tony Barber, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Spectacularly revisionist... Judson argues that...the empire was a force for progress and modernity... This is a bold and refreshing book... Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state.\"\u003cbr\u003e--A. W. Purdue, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Annabelle Chapman, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52180627325159,"sku":"9780674986763","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_ff6ecb05-15cc-4ab9-bba8-a3d7754eda73.jpg?v=1780995463","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-habsburg-empire-a-new-history","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}