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Book Synopsis1: 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, 17901848 .- 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.
