哈布斯堡帝国，1790-1918年

这本书讲述了奥地利君主制从1790年到1918年解体的历史。它的主题是统治中欧的古老王朝帝国与与其发生冲突的新国家、政治和社会力量之间的百年斗争。作者从1790年约瑟夫十一世皇帝去世开始，他认为这一事件标志着专制和中央集权与新势力之间斗争的转折；但在他的叙述之前，他简要介绍了约瑟夫自己的统治，并全面描述了新时代即将到来的旧君主制。C.A.马卡特尼认为，他的主题包括整个君主制，包括其中的每个民族、阶级和省份。因此，他带来并使人们理解统一中的多样性，以及综合多样性的统一，这使奥地利君主制的历史具有其特殊性和独特性。
作者长期以来都熟悉哈布斯堡帝国的国家和民族，正是这种经历，再加上语言成就，使他能够利用极其广泛的资源。其成果是一部具有独特见解和理解力的不朽学术著作。
The Habsburg Empire, 1790-1918
This book is a narrative history of the Austrian Monarchy from 1790 to its break-up in 1918. Its theme is the hundred year struggle between the venerable dynastic empire which ruled Central Europe, and the new national, political and social forces in conflict with it, an with one another. The author starts with the death of Emperor Joseph 11 in 1790, the event which he takes as marking the turn of the tide in the struggle between autocracy and centralisation on the one side, and the new forces on the other; but he prefixes his narrative with a brief account of Joseph’s own reign, and with a comprehensive picture of the old monarchy on the threshold of the new age. C. A. Macartney takes his subject as comprising the monarchy as a whole, every people, class and province in it. He thus brings and makes intelligible the diversity within the unity, and the unity synthesising the diversity, which give the history of the Austrian Monarchy its special and unique character.
The author was long acquainted with the countries and peoples that were once part of the Habsburg Empire and it was this experience, combined with linguistic accomplishments that enabled him to draw on an exceptionally wide range of sources. The result is a work of monumental scholarship written with unique insight and understanding.

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