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AUSTRIAS WARS OF EMERGENCE

MODERN WARS IN PERSPECTIVE

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AUSTRIAS WARS OF EMERGENCE

War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy 16831797

MICHAEL HOCHEDLINGER

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CONTENTS

During the writing of this book, I have necessarily incurred a big debt of gratitude towards many colleagues and institutions who have helped with their comments and ideas or have provided the material and literature on which the present study is based. A few must be singled out here for special mention: Prof. Peter Wilson (Sunderland) was kind enough to read an earlier draft of the book and made numerous helpful comments. Dr. Matthew Z. Mayer (Montreal) likewise provided his generous assistance by going over several chapters and supplying me with new material on Joseph IIs Turkish War which he had collected for his Cambridge doctoral thesis. Prof. Thomas Winkelbauer (Vienna) gave valuable advice on specific problems of the early modern social and financial history of the Habsburg Monarchy. Dr. Gza Plffy (Budapest) was kind enough to look through the chapters on the Hungarian home defence system and the sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Military Border. Heather McCallum and her team at Pearson Education (in particular Melanie Carter) have always been patient, encouraging and helpful. Mag. Christian Liebl (Vienna) greatly helped me to keep the deadline. Finally, the series editor, Prof. Hamish M. Scott (St. Andrews) devoted an enormous amount of his time and energy to reading and commenting on various versions of this book, making countless suggestions to improve the style and make the text more coherent and more accessible.