Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797: War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy (Modern Wars in Perspective)

Introduction: The Belated Great Power -- Modest Origins -- The Habsburg Monarchy During The Second Half Of The Seventeenth Century: The Domestic Foundations -- The Primacy Of Power Politics -- Home Defence -- The Standing Army -- Austria's 'age Of Heroes' 1683-1733: The Turkish War 1683-1699 -- The Nine Years War 1689-1697 -- The War Of Spanish Succession 1701-1714 -- Renewed Expansion -- The Crisis Of A Great Power 1733-1748: Diplomatic Reverses And Military Defeats -- Squaring The Circle Or How To Administer And Defend A Territorial Giant -- The War Of Austrian Succession 1740-1748 -- Reform -- Revenge -- Aggression?: The Modernization Of The Habsburg Monarchy In The Age Of Enlightened Absolutism 1740-1790 -- Army And Society -- The Seven Years War 1756-1763 -- Peacetime Expansion In The East 1764-1775 -- Streamlining The Habsburg Monarchy -- The Russian Maelstrom -- State Crisis And Recovery -- The Revolutionary Challenge 1789-1797: From 'military Promenade' To Life-and-death Struggle, 1789-1794 -- In Search Of Compensations 1792-1795 -- False Hopes 1796-1797 -- Prospect. Michael Hochedlinger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction: The belated great power -- Modest Origins - the Habsburg Monarchy During the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 1. The domestic foundations -- The question of terminology -- The territorial and administrative configuration of the Habsburg Monarchy -- Limited absolutism: the provincial Estates -- Economy -- Finances -- 2. The primacy of power politics -- The instruments of foreign policy -- From domestic to foreign policy: the Habsburgs and the Reich after 1648 -- Geopolitical challenges and responses -- 3. Home defence -- Feudal levy and peasant militia in the Austro-Bohemian lands -- Hungary -- The Military Border (Militärgrenze) -- The contribution of the Reich -- 4. The standing army -- Origins and growth -- The High Command -- The officer corps -- Military administration -- Artillery -- Technical branches -- The guards -- Weaponry -- Military industries -- Uniforms -- Quarters and provisions -- Soldiers' families and the baggage train -- Military justice -- Religion -- Medical service and disabled soldiers -- Tactics, strategy and the primacy of logistics -- Austria's 'age of heroes' 1683-1733 -- 5. The Turkish War 1683-1699 -- The Kuruc rebellion -- The siege of Vienna -- The Habsburg counter-offensive -- 6. The Nine Years War 1689-1697 -- The 'reunions' -- The French invasion of Germany -- From stalemate to peace -- 7. The War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714 -- The Spanish inheritance -- The Italian peninsula -- Germany -- The Spanish Netherlands -- Spain -- The peace treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt and Baden 1713-1714 -- The Rákóczy rebellion 1703-1711 -- 8. Renewed expansion -- The Turkish War of 1716-1718 -- Trade expansion The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy.Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna’s military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history. Hochedlinger traces Austria's diplomatic and military achievements from the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 to the peace of Campoformido in 1797, and examines the foundations of Habsburg power policy and the functioning of Vienna's military apparatus.