{"product_id":"the-great-war-and-the-transformation-of-habsburg-central-europe-hardcover","title":"The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePieter M. Judson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTara Zahra\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world's eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo. The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary outcome - or, moreover, that the Monarchy itself was destined to disintegrate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the First World War transformed the multinational Austro-Hungarian Monarchy into a fractured landscape of mistrust, scarcity, and dissolution and laid the foundation for the new postwar world. The outcome of the war is not, it argues, evidence of the inherent fragility of multinational polities, and Austria-Hungary was not inevitably doomed to collapse on the eve of the war. Instead, it contends that the Habsburg state laid the groundwork for its own dissolution by turning on its citizens. By imposing military rule, suspending civil rights, fostering suspicions among its citizens based on the languages they spoke, and failing to secure enough food to feed the population, the Habsburg state both created new and exacerbated existing regional, local, religious, and national antagonisms. Over time, severe hardships on the home front, in occupied territories, and in refugee and prisoner-of-war camps spurred widespread resentment and eroded loyalty to the monarchy. But even as the empire frayed, the war inspired innovative institutions, social welfare measures, and new understandings of citizenship that continued to influence postwar Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing these experiences at multiple scales - local, imperial, and international - award-winning historians Pieter Judson and Tara Zahra here reframe the history of the late Habsburg Monarchy. Taking a deliberately broad chronology, they demonstrate that the war can no longer be treated as a mere postscript to Austria-Hungary's biography. Instead, the war was a constitutive factor in the Empire's dissolution, in the domestic relations that structured society in the successor states, and in the birth of the new world order institutionalized by the Paris Peace Conferences. Both the experience and outcome of the First World War in the Habsburg Monarchy held implications that extended far beyond its borders, and beyond the lives of its forty-eight million citizens.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieter M. Judson, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of History, European University Institute Florence\u003c\/em\u003e, Tara Zahra, \u003cem\u003eHanna Holborn Gray Professor of History, University of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePieter M. Judson has taught at the European University Institute in Florence from 2014-2024 and at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History. Judson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1987) and has authored several books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe. He has served as President of the Central European History Society of North America and as editor of the \u003cem\u003eAustrian History Yearbook\u003c\/em\u003e. He received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, Marshall, the IFK (Vienna), the American Academy in Berlin, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, globalization, and the history of dance. She was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.31 x 6.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978226565421,"sku":"9780198804000","price":52.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/npjIKj2r09780198804000.webp?v=1775801131","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-great-war-and-the-transformation-of-habsburg-central-europe-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}