Table of Contents

Preface I. Toward the Union of the Habsburg Lands II. Turks and Protestants (1526-1648) III. An Empire Evolves and Asserts Itself (1648-1748) IV. Late Renaissance and Baroque Age in the Habsburg Lands (1526-1740) V. An Empire Reasserts Itself (1740-1815) VI. Standstill, Decline and Stabilization (1815-1879) VII. Cultural Trends from Late Englightenment to Liberalism (from mid-eighteenth century to the 1860's) VIII. Decline and Discord (1879-1914) IX. World War and Dissolution (1914-1918) X. New Beginnings: Cultural Trends from the 1860's to 1918 XI. Bibliographical Essay Appendix Index