Readings
Completion requirements
William O’Reilly: 'Lost chances of the House of Habsburg', Austrian History Yearbook, 40 (1), 2009, pp. 53-70.
Further readings (optional)
Charles W. Ingrao, “Facing West: the Second Habsburg Empire 1700-1740,” in The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815, 2nd ed, New Approaches to European History 21 (Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 105–49.
William O’Reilly: ‘Divide et impera: Race, Ethnicity and Administration in early 18th-Century Habsburg Hungary’, in Gudmundur Hálfdánarson and Anne Katherine Isaacs (eds.), Minorities in Europe, Florence, 2003, pp. 100-129.