Pt. 1: The Habsburg Empire -- At the threshold of a new age -- The defeat of constitutional liberalism -- The end of the era of absolutism -- The quest for an Austrian idea -- The struggle of the nationalities -- Domestic issues from 1867 to 1914 -- Foreign policy 1871 to 1914 -- War and disintegration -- Pt. 2: Selected readings -- Metternich on conservatism -- Blsecu: nationality and liberty -- The fall of Metternich -- Palacký: letter to the German National Assembly -- German radicals against Slav nationalism -- Croatian aspirations for autonomy -- The peasantry in Austria and in Hungary after 1848 -- Hungarian Declaration of Independence -- The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 -- A statistical survey of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy -- The Abortive Compromise of 1871 with the Czechs -- The difficult art of governing Austria -- The magyarization in Hungary -- The democratic elections of 1906 -- The alliance of Austria-Hungary with Germany -- Austro-Hungarian administration of Bosnia -- The annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The old emperor -- The Austrian ultimatum to Serbia in 1914.
