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Nationality and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1526-1918 History 673

Spring 2002 Tuesday 1:30-3:20

Timothy Snyder [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesdays, 9:30-12:00

This graduate reading course treats the political history of the Habsburg domains. Its first purpose is to review some of the established canon of political history. The second is to consider changing understandings of legitimacy and loyalty.

Two aims flow from these two purposes. The first is to consider the construction of ambitious narrative histories. The second is to consider the special place of modern Austria-Hungary in the history of nationalist thought and theories of nationalism.

Participants will be expected to prepare two book reviews. The first book review (8-12 pages), on an assigned reading of choice, must consider the following questions: what problems did the subject of the book pose for its construction, what formal solutions did the author choose, how fruitful were these solutions? It is assumed that this review will have a comparative aspect. It is due in class in week ten.

There are two options for the second book review (15-20 pages). Participants may choose to consider the famous and famously controversial work of A. J. P. Taylor, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918. Criticism here should reflect as many of the previous readings as seems appropriate. Alternatively, students may choose to review the arguments of one or more theorist of nationalism in light of our texts. One candidate is Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism. Other possible topics can be discussed. This second review is due one week after the end of class, in my box at HGS.

These are reviews, not research papers. The focus of the course is reading and discussion. Participants are expected to volunteer to present the readings (15 minutes), and to prepare themselves for each week's discussion.

Please ask if you would like an additional list of readings in German, Polish, Czech, or Ukrainian. If there are a sufficient number of requests I will prepare alternate lists in these languages. We'll get a sense of such matters in the first meeting.

1. Introduction: The Habsburg Consolidation, 1550-1700

R. J. W. Evans, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

2. Early Dynasts: Ferdinand I and Maximilian II, 1556-1576

Paula S. Fichtner, Emperor Maximillian II, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Paula S. Fichtner, Ferdinand I of Austria, Boulder: East European Monographs, 1982.

3. Bohemian Renaissance: Rudolf II, 1576-1612

R. J. W. Evans, Rudolph II and his World, Oxford: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

4. Encirclement: The Seventeenth Century

Charles Ingrao, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1990.

John Stoye, The Siege of Vienna, London: Collins St. James's Place, 1964.

5. Enlightenment: The Eighteenth Century

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P. G. M. Dickson, Finance and Government under Maria Theresia, 1740-1780, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Selections to be announced in class.

D. E. D. Beales, Joseph II, Cambridge: Cambridge U. P. 1987. Volume 1.

6. Reactions, Revivals, Rebellions: 1789-1849

C. A. Macartney, The Habsburg Empire, 1790-1918, New York: Macmillan, 1969. Read only chapters on 1790-1849.

7. Hungary, 1789-1849

George Barany, Stephen Széchenyi and the Awakening of Hungarian Nationalism, 1791-1841, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.

István Deák, The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

8. Bohemia, 1789-1849

Joseph Frederick Zacek, Palacky: The Historian as Scholar and Nationalist, The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

Stanley J. Pech, The Czech Revolution of 1848, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

9. Compromises: 1849-1918

C. A. Macartney, The Habsburg Empire, 1790-1918, New York: Macmillan, 1969. Chapters on 1849-1918.

10. Galicia, 1849-1918

John-Paul Himka, Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.

Jan Slomka, From Serfdom to Self-government: Memoirs of a Polish Village Mayor, 1842-1927, London: Minerva, 1941.

First Book Review due.

11. The Army and International Affairs

István Deák, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, New York: Oxford U. P., 1990.

F. R. Bridge, The Habsburg Monarchy Among the Great Powers, 1815-1918, New York: Berg, 1990. Chapters on post-1848 only.

12. Modern Nations in Modern Cities?

Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, New York: Vintage, 1981.

13. Reprise: Francis Joseph, 1848-1916

Josef Redlich, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria: A Biography, New York: Macmillan, 1929.

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