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First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of nineteenth-century European history. Not only a chronological report of actions and changes, Taylor’s work is a provocative exploration into the historical process of the most eventful hundred years of the Habsburg monarchy.

Reviews:

•  Its been decades since I first read this, and I rather expected it to be dated. Not a bit of it. I am doing some work on Hapsburg Hungary, and found AJP’s book to be just as insightful, challenging and fresh as it was when I first read it.
• The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918 is a very interesting and enjoyable look at one of the dominant forces in European affairs. It is written in an enjoyable style with the author holding no punches and even if you disagree with what he is arguing he still does it in an entertaining way. Although he probably focuses a little too much on class issues at times his basic argument that the Habsburg Empire was pretty much dead by the mid-nineteenth century seems to be justifiable. All in all a very good and enjoyable book.

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as “the Macaulay of our age”. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years.