Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World WarAristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period. |
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Admission Standards and Education | 33 |
Wealth and Outside Career Experience | 59 |
Religion and Marriage | 85 |
Diplomacy in a New Age Achrenthals Reforms | 102 |
Ethnicity and the Ausgleich The Foreign Office in Multinational Monarchy | 124 |
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Page 9 - IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MINISTRY OF THE IMPERIAL AND " ROYAL HOUSE AND OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, " Vienna, April 8, 1917. "Since the United States of America has declared that a state of war exists between it and The Imperial German Government, Austria-Hungary, as ally of the German Empire, has decided to break off the diplomatic relations with the United States, and the Imperial and Royal Embassy...
Page 3 - national" history, the image of the "prison of nationalities," and the no less potent myth of a ramshackle structure on the verge of collapse in 1914 have all diverted attention from the Habsburg experience.