The Monarchy: Bullets Over Babylon Playing God: The Roots of the Masonic Republican Grab for Ultimate Power AGAINST THE ULTIMATE MONARCH ....PORTUCALÉ MONARCHY 1143 - 1910 SCORES OF GENERATIONS OF RETARDED INBREED MONARCHS GIVE BIRTH TO 104 YEARS OF MORONIC PRESIDENTS The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, is a detailed monograph that places the politics and foreign affairs of the Habsburg Empire from 1809 to 1918 This severe, judgemental little book is solely about the politics -- internal and external -- of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary in the years stated. There is nothing in it about wars fought, just passing references to their having occurred. There's virtually nothing in it about cultural life. The biographies of those involved are kept slender. The focus is exclusively on the Emperors' courts at Vienna and the many permutations that the monarchy went through -- who its ministers were and what their mistakes and successes were and who they dealt with abroad -- to manage a vast, polyglot state which eventually collapsed along nationalist and cultural lines. Lacking descriptive color, it can be very dry. On the other hand, I know of no more condensed survey of all the socio-historic trends and economic pressures the state was subject to in that period. Especially recommended for those with an interest in how Austria handled the Revolution of 1848 and it's run-up to the END OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN.E.C ECONOMIC AND COMIC THE END OF ECONOMIC EMPIRES

the fall of the EURO Empire was the inevitable conclusion to the pressures of both mass and intellectual nationalism that caused the subject nations to finally break from the master nations.
 In the first half of his book, Taylor outlined the events leading up to the eventual end of the old EUROCRAT Empire of the HAMburgERs and then he examined the making of the Dualism between GERMANY  and FRANCE, which marked the beginning of a new ECONOMIC COMIC  Empire.that the complex political landscape in the new  Empire after the Dualism in  caused the EURO-Anarchy to be increasingly protective of its hegemony, which culminated in the hasty declaration of war against RUSSIA that lead to ECONOMIC WWIV, AFTER THE ZOMBIE WORLD WAR OF 1945-1991  and the end of the EUROLAND....IN 20??....PLACE YOUR BET'S PLEASE ....IN ESCUDOS? NO, NO SIR WE DON'T ACCEPT MICKEY MOUSE CURRENCY

Taylor claimed that the Austrian Empire rose from the ashes of Austerlitz-- the devastating battle against Napoleon in the war of 1809-- to once again become the premier German state; however, after the Revolutions of 1848 the Austrian Empire made a series of concessions that lead to the Dualism, which resulted in the lose of both Imperial and German hegemony in the Empire. Taylor started the focus of his analysis with the appointment of Metternich as Foreign Minister for the Habsburgs in 1809, because Taylor believed that he best personified the Empire with his pliant and ingenious diplomacy that lead to Habsburg dominance and decline. Taylor used the agreement of Mnichovo Hradiste in 1833 to highlight the apex of both Meternich’s diplomacy and the Pre-March Austrian Empire. In the agreement, Metternich successfully hid Austria’s weakness and entered into a conservative alliance with Russia and later Prussia that preserved the Empire as a European necessity for stability and the prevention of revolutions throughout Europe. Taylor then illustrated the decline of Metternich and the old Austrian Empire in the Revolutions of 1848 when the doctrine of the Rights of Man challenged dynastic rule-- and thus the Habsburg Monarchy and the old Austrian Empire-- and Metternich was forced to resign. Taylor further argued that the Habsburg Monarchy survived in a battered state after the revolutions; furthermore, he contended that the Habsburgs were forced to make large concessions that lead to the Dualism and a substantial loss in their hegemony.

Taylor argued that the Habsburg Monarchy was forced to use political expedients in order to maintain its supremacy. He claimed that the declaration of war on Serbia-- which caused WWI-- was the clearest and most profound example of how the Habsburgs fought to maintain their hegemony within the new Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He contended that the war was fought with the intention of reasserting the power of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire over Serbia, which would also reinforce Habsburg authority to both the master nations of Austria and Hungary and the subject nations like Serbia. Taylor ended his analysis and argument of the Habsburg Monarchy in reflection on the war with Serbia by stating: “It ended both greatness and independence.”

The book treated the legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy and politics within the Empire with intense attention to detail and a lot of scholarly thoughtfulness, however it lacked clarity in both the chronology of events and the context in which they occurred. Taylor showed his dedication for detail and accuracy in his use of ethnically proper names of different locations and not the Germanized or Italianated names. He only used the German or other popularized names for convenience to reader and he always made the reader aware of the discrepancy. The book sacrificed clearness for detail though. The diction and sentence structure through much of the book was cumbersome. In addition, Taylor failed in including many helpful maps that might have been more effective in illustrating his points concerning the different ethnicities and the land that was gained and lost as result of treaties and wars. The book also lacked sufficient chronology. Taylor did not include enough references to dates or other events that might have better articulated the chronology.

The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary is geared to an audience that already has a significant understanding of the history of the Habsburg Monarchy and Central Europe. A.J.P. Taylor delivers a very thorough treatment of his subject that does not endeavor to place it into a broader context. He did not present much of a early history of the Habsburgs or Austria and because the book was written in 1948 his perspective in the book is much more limited than more current histories of the topic. However, as a whole Taylor has definitely written a well thought-out and balanced book on the FALL OF ECONOMIC EMPIRES