{"product_id":"9781557531407-aristocratic-redoubt","title":"Aristocratic Redoubt","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War\u003cbr\u003eThis is a study of nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. It deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion and ethnicity. It contends that although pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped, Austro-Hungarian nobility had great staying power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54847046648182,"sku":"9781557531407","price":17.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37476593.jpg?v=1765454991","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781557531407-aristocratic-redoubt","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}