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Author:  William Godsey 

The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years’ War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to as many as half a million in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the Habsburg monarchy participated in shifting international constellations of rivalry from western Europe to the Near East and in some two dozen, partly overlapping armed conflicts. Raising forces of such magnitude constituted a central task of Habsburg government, one that ultimately required the cooperation of society and its elites. The monarchy’s composite-territorial structures in the guise of the Lower Austrian Estates — a leading representative body and privileged corps — formed a vital, if changing, element underlying Habsburg international success and resilience. With its capital at Vienna, the archduchy below the river Enns (the historic designation of Lower Austria) was geographically, politically, and financially a key Habsburg possession. Fiscal-military exigency induced the Estates to take part in new and evolving arrangements of power that served the purposes of government; in turn the Estates were able in previously little-understood ways and within narrowing boundaries to preserve vital interests in a changing world. The Estates survived because they were necessary, not only thanks to their increasing financial potency, but also because they offered a politically viable way of exacting ever-larger quantities of money, men, and other resources from local society. These circumstances would persist as ruling became more regularized, formalized, and homogenized, and as the very understanding of the Estates as a social and political phenomenon was evolving.

The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria in a Fiscal Military State 1650–1820 1st Table of contents:

1. The Estates of Lower Austria
The Estate of Prelates
Admission to the Estates of Lords and Knights
The Composition of the Noble Estates
The Fourth Estate (Townsmen)
2. Organization and Officeholders, c.1650–1764
Structures and Offices
Officeholders: Prerequisites and Appointments
Officeholders: Prelates
Officeholders: Lords
Officeholders: Knights
3. Evolving Fiscal Foundations, c.1650–1730
Taxation and Credit
Fiscal Innovation and Credit
4. A Commissariat for the Standing Army, c.1650–1764
The Administrative Context
The Estates’ Commissariat: Changing Structures and Personnel
The Commissariat in Action
Conclusion
5. Toward a “Military, Cameral, and Debt System,” 1733–48
6. Reform, Credit, and Compromise, 1749–63
A Time of “Fear and Misgiving”
The Seven Years War
The Advent of Kaunitz
7. “Fifteen Years of Military Government,” 1763–80
Wartime Preludes to Reform
Scandal, Confrontation, and Reform
Putting the Books in Order
Turning the Fiscal Screw
Conclusion
8. “He is working to abolish all Estates,” 1780–90
Religious Reform and the Estates
Organization: Presiding Officers
Organization: Committees and Financial Officers
Organization: The Diets
The Reign’s Last Phase
Conclusion
9. Renovation and Representation after 1790
Renovation
Organization and Officeholders
The Changing Understanding of the Estates and the Problem of Representation
10. Resilience in the Contest with France, 1792–1815
Fiscal Administration and Political Stability
Conflict and Credit
Foreign Occupation and Domestic Patriotism
The Costs of War and Peace
Conclusion
Appendix
Receivers (Einnehmer) and Receivers General (Obereinnehmer) of the Lower Austrian Estates 1637–1818
Genealogical Tables
Manuscript Sources

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