{"product_id":"aristocratic-redoubt-the-austro-hungarian-foreign-office-on-the-eve-of-the-first-world-war-9781557531407","title":"Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\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.","brand":"Purdue University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50083758342487,"sku":"9781557531407","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781557531407.jpg?v=1740724522","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aristocratic-redoubt-the-austro-hungarian-foreign-office-on-the-eve-of-the-first-world-war-9781557531407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}