{"product_id":"pieter-m-judson-the-habsburg-empire-2018-paperback","title":"Pieter M. Judson: The Habsburg Empire [2018] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eEuropeNow\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Pick\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Tim Blanning, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Tony Barber, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spectacularly revisionist... Judson argues that...the empire was a force for progress and modernity... This is a bold and refreshing book... Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state.\"\u003cbr\u003e-A. W. Purdue, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Annabelle Chapman, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judson, Pieter M.","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52777781952851,"sku":"XV80674986763","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":52777781920083,"sku":"9780674986763","price":34.21,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/judson-pieter-m-pieter-m-judson-the-habsburg-empire-2018-paperback-1216452726.jpg?v=1768337410","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/pieter-m-judson-the-habsburg-empire-2018-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}