His narrative may be one of many possible readings of Habsburg history, as he himself says-yet it is one that is both nuanced and compelling.- () Crisply written and nuanced.With invigorating precision, analyses how the state was built up by various forces working simultaneously from above and below. Refreshingly, his book also challenges lasting presumptions about differences between Europe east and west, backward and developed, ethnic and civic. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts.- () subtly argued work of deep scholarship.A nuanced scholarly reappraisal of a significant European empire.-Kirkus Reviews () Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit. Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history.- () This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe.
If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Purdue"Times Higher Education" () Pieter M. It was a pleasure to speak with Pieter again about this book.Indispensable to any serious library.-Simon Heffer"Daily Telegraph" () Spectacularly revisionist.Judson argues that.the empire was a force for progress and modernity.This is a bold and refreshing book.Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state.-A.
In so doing beyond offering a new more nuanced understanding of how and why Austria-Hungary fell apart, he also suggests the the twenty years before 1848 were much more interesting than the conventional narrative has allowed.
Not only does his book offer a reappraisal of Habsburg history that incorporate concepts like national indifference, but more than previous histories it gets out of the purely political realm to look at economic changes. His latest book, The Habsburg Empire: A New History ( Harvard University Press, 2016) provides scholars with the first major general history of the Empire since a new wave of scholarship began chipping away at the myths built up in various national historiographies. Pieter Judson established himself as one of the top scholars of the East Central Europe with his first two books Exclusive Revolutionaries (University of Michigan Press, 1996) and Guardians of the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2006).
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