Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557531407)

Aristocratic 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.

Author: William D. Godsey
ISBN-10: 1557531404
ISBN-13: 9781557531407
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1998
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.74w x 0.78d