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Beyond Nationalism - A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918 (Hardcover)
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Beyond Nationalism - A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918 (Hardcover)
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In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence,
the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising
nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the
conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast
area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many
confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin,
education, training, code of honor, lifestyle, and political role
of the Habsburg officers. Simultaneously conservative and liberal,
the officer corps, originally composed mainly of noblemen,
willingly coopted thousands of commoners--among them an
extraordinary number of Jews. Even during World War I, the army and
its officers endured, surviving the dissolution of the state in
October 1918, if only by a few days. The end of the multinational
Habsburg army also marked the end of confessional and ethnic
tolerance in Central and East Central Europe.
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