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Article: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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The break-up of the artificial states of Czecho-Slovakia and Yugoslavia and the current instability in Eastern Europe is causing both historians and commentators to look more favourable upon the only state that ever gave long periods of peace and prosperity to Central and South-eastern Europe, the Habsburg Monarchy. Since the nineteenth century it has been the fashion for English-speaking -- and often English was the only language they spoke or read -- historians to dismiss this multi-national and multi-cultural Empire as a ramshackle and doom-laden absurdity. There were exceptions such as Lord Acton who saw its vital role in preserving the stability of Europe. When the ...
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