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Identifier: moderncontempora01scha (find matches)
Title: Modern and contemporary European history (1815-1921)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Schapiro, J. Salwyn (Jacob Salwyn), 1879-1973 Shotwell, James Thomson, 1874-1965, ed
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
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lute monarchywas considered to be the best means of maintaining har-mony, order, and stability among the various races. Ab-solutism became a passion, almost a propaganda, amongthe Austrians, just as democracy was among the French.As we have already seen, Vienna was the citadel of reac-tion in Europe during the Period of Restoration, for when-ever a blow at democracy was to be struck, Austria couldbe depended upon to strike it. Austrias leadership in Germany was unquestioned forcenturies. The element of romance in the Holy RomanTh jt j Empire greatly appealed to German sentiment,Roman even though the Empire was but a tradition mpire and the Emperor but a shadow. When the Hapsburgs became Emperors of Austria after Napoleon hadabolished the Holy Roman Empire, their influence amongthe German people sensibly diminished; and it vanishedalmost completely when Prussia came forward as thedoughty wielder of the German sword. The political his-tory of Austria during the nineteenth century may be
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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 425 summed up as the gradual weakening of her influence inWestern and its gradual strengthening in Eastern Europe. The Austro-Sardinian War of 1859 resulted in the lossof Lombardy.1 Defeat in war has always been consideredan unanswerable criticism of absolute monarchy, Theand the Austrian Government was forced to February , , , Patent make some concessions to democracy in order toforestall a possible uprising. Accordingly, Emperor FrancisJoseph I granted a constitution, called the Diploma ofi860, which, as amended in the following year, was knownas the February Patent. This document introduced amodified parliamentary regime by establishing a representa-tive assembly for the whole Empire known as the Reichs-rat, composed of two chambers. One, the House of Lords,consisted of hereditary nobles, high officials, dignitaries ofthe Church, and others whom the Emperor appointed; theother, the House of Representatives, consisted of memberselected, not directly by popular vote,

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