The most thorough reassessment of the reign of the great reforming Empress Maria Theresia (1740-1780) to date, this two-volume work throws new light on Austrian society and government in the 18th century and makes an important contribution to the history of central and eastern Europe in the Age of Enlightenment.
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"Dickson offers so many valuable insights and his scholarship is so prodigious that he has written a book no student of eighteenth-century Habsburg economic, social, or political history can afford to ignore."--Journal of European Economic History
"These are two impressive volumes. The amount of research that must have been expended to write them boggles the mind....No one working in eighteenth-century Austrian history will be able to ignore this work."--American Historical Review
"Extensively researched, his study provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Theresian state finance....A major scholarly contribution."--Choice
"Make[s] a fundamental reappraisal of the reign of the Queen-Empress and her tempestuous son."--TImes Literary Supplement
"These two packed volumes set forth in great detail the empire's resources, both demographic and material, alongside descriptions of the institutions and procedures it developed in an attempt to sustain its rapidly expanding military establishment....This study supercedes everything previously written on Habsburg finance....Every academic library must have this book, and scholars in the field will find it indispensable."--History: Reviews of New Books
"Dickson offers so many valuable insights and his scholarship is so prodigious that he has written a book no student of eighteenth-century Habsburg economic, social, or political history can afford to ignore."--Journal of European Economic History
"These are two impressive volumes. The amount of research that must have been expended to write them boggles the mind....No one working in eighteenth-century Austrian history will be able to ignore this work."--American Historical Review
"Extensively researched, his study provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Theresian state finance....A major scholarly contribution."--Choice
"Make[s] a fundamental reappraisal of the reign of the Queen-Empress and her tempestuous son."--TImes Literary Supplement
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