Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies

Heidi Hein-Kircher is Director of the Martin Opitz Library (Herne) and Professor for German History and Culture in Eastern Europe at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh is Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

• 1: Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia in the Nineteenth Century .- Part I Reorientation and Restructuring of Imperial Monarchies.- 2: Prussia’s road to ‘Iron and blood’: Wilhelm I and the nationalisation of the Hohenzollern monarchy.- 3: Sacrifice and sovereignty: reform and the meaning of monarchy in the late German confederation.- 4: Between Reform and Reaction: The Great Reforms, Siberian Regionalism, and the Limits of Modernisation in Russia.- 5: Modernising Germany’s most unmodern monarch: Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818-1901) and the art of dynastic survival.- Part II Politicizing Imperial Monarchies, Fostering the State.- 6: State Transformation as Dialogue between Centre and Periphery: Non-State Actors and Everyday Administration in Lower Austria, 1790–1848 .- 7: The Struggle for the Public Good: Local Government, Civic Commitment, and Municipal Modernisation in Late Imperial Russia.- 8: The military dimension of modernising the Habsburg Monarchy in the 1850s.- 9: The Formation of Modern Policy-Making: A Case Study on the Chaussee Policies in Prussia, c. 1786-1850s.- 10: The Modernity of the Unmodern? The German Emperor in the Constitution of the Kaiserreich.- Part III Creating and Communicating the Imperial Monarchy’s Image.- 11: Between Modernity and Persistence – the Austrian Practices of Enoblement as a Symbol of the Administrative and Societal Transformation in the Late Habsburg Monarchy.- 12: Continuity and Modernity? The Cult of Franz Joseph in the Bohemian Crownlands.- 13: Modern, constitutional, and multinational: images of the Habsburg monarchy in Austrian schools, 1867-1914.- 14: The Emperor’s Hungarian Gambit: How Franz Joseph Transformed from Tyrant to King.- Part IV Conclusion.- 15: Modernizing the Unmodern State: Concluding Thoughts.