- Note on Names and Places
- List of Maps and Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. The Accidental Empire
- 2. Servants and Citizens, Empire and Fatherland, 1780–1815
- 3. An Empire of Contradictions, 1815–1848
- 4. Whose Empire? The Revolutions of 1848–1849
- 5. Mid-Century Modern: The Emergence of a Liberal Empire
- 6. Culture Wars and Wars for Culture
- 7. Everyday Empire, Our Empire, 1880–1914
- 8. War and Radical State-Building, 1914–1925
- Epilogue: The New Empires
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Maps and Illustrations
- Maps
- Habsburg Territories at the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, 1748
- Habsburg Territories in 1772
- The Austrian Empire in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna
- The Austrian Empire, 1859–1867
- Austria-Hungary in 1914
- Austria-Hungary with wartime Polish and Balkan Zones of Occupation
- East Central Europe in 1925
- Illustrations
- Remains of the Habsburg castle in Canton Aargau, Switzerland
- Maria Theresa and her children in 1776
- View of Trieste’s/Trst’s very busy harbor in the eighteenth century
- Nineteenth-century depiction of Joseph II taking a turn at the plow in Slavíkovice Moravia
- Maria Theresa’s son Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II, surrounded by his family in Florence
- The Departure of the Militiaman (1813) by Johann Peter Krafft
- Johann Peter Krafft’s depiction of the triumphant return of Emperor Franz I to Vienna
- An Austrian steamship of the mid-nineteenth century arriving in Trieste/Trst
- The railway bridge leading to Brünn/Brno, with the city in the distance
- View of Troppau/Opava
- The port of Zadar/Zara in Dalmatia, ca. 1845
- Emperor Ferdinand on 15 March 1848, acclaimed by an enthusiastic Viennese crowd after his promise of a constitution
- Nineteenth-century engraving depicting the Venetian uprising
- Depiction of the first uncensored newspapers sold in the streets of Vienna in 1848
- The Hungarian Parliament votes to create a military force to fight the invading army of Ban Joseph Jelačić
- František Palacḱy (1798–1876), noted historian of the Bohemian Lands and political leader of the Czech nationalist movement
- Minister of Justice and of the Interior Alexander von Bach (1813–1893)
- Photograph from an album commemorating the completion of the Südbahn railway line in 1857
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria on horseback, one of her favorite activities
- The imperial family in 1860
- Ferenc Deák (1803–1876) in mid-life
- Francis Joseph and Elisabeth after their coronation as King and Queen of Hungary
- Cartoon in the satirical magazine Kikeriki, 9 January 1868
- Count Casimir Badeni (1846–1909), former governor of Galicia and prime minister of Austria
- The grand entrance to the Exhibition Palace with rotunda at the Vienna World’s Fair, 1873
- Exhibition of agricultural products from Galicia at the Vienna World’s Fair, 1873
- Postcard of the main building of the University in Czernowitz/Cernǎuți/Cernivci
- View of the main railway station concourse in Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv, first opened in 1904
- Railway bridge over the river Pruth near Jaremcze/Yaremche
- Depiction of an election campaign speech in nineteenth-century Hungary
- The Vienna Ringstrasse nears completion around 1890
- Postcard from ca. 1905 of the city theater in Brünn/Brno
- Postcard of the Croatian National theater in Zagreb
- Postcard of the theater in Graz
- Opening festivities of the millennium celebrations in Budapest, 1896
- War loan propaganda poster advertising the fifth bond issue (November 1916) through the Živnotenská Bank in Prague
- Evacuated population, Galicia, 1914
- Women’s sewing class in the barracks of the refugee camp at Wagna, 1915
- Newly crowned King Charles IV of Hungary, 1916
- In the Jewish quarter of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv during the pogrom of November 1918
- Maps
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