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This book analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia in 1848 to 1918. The German ethnic model of nation building steeped in language and culture had been replicated in the case of Polish and Czech nationalisms. Silesia became a focal point as an area that was sought after by all three nations.
Problems in European Civilization is a distinguished series of topical readers centered upon important and controversial events, movements, theories, and personalities in European history from ancient times to the present. Each volume brings together, under eminent editorship, numerous views on its theme, inspiring the reader to check, sift, interpret, and draw conclusions from a variety of authoritative sources. Suggestions for additional reading are included. For further details write to Faculty Correspondent, D.C. Health and Company, 125 Spring Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173.
Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.
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The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to as many as half a million in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Habsburg monarchy participated in shifting international constellations of rivalry from western Europe to the Near East and in some two dozen, partly overlapping armed conflicts. Raising forces of such magnitude constituted a central task of Habsburg government, one that ultimately required the cooperation of society and its elites. ...