Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?
AbstractThe Habsburg monarchy seems doubly confounding. Its historians call it an empire, but it actually never called itself that. For a fraction of its existence (1804–67), the monarchy counted as a Kaisertum, a word meant to burnish the fading glory of a lost imperial title (of the Holy Roman Empire).
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth-Century Occupational Medicine. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Zanatta A, Mason P, Bollini S, Magno G.
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Unser tägliches Reich gib uns heute? Pieter Judsons Habsburg. Geschichte eines Imperiums [PDF]
Rezension: Pieter M. Judson, Habsburg. Geschichte eines Imperiums, 1740–1918. Aus dem Englischen von Michael Müller, München: C. H. Beck 2017, 667 Seiten, 7 Karten und 40 Abbildungen, ISBN 978 3 406 70653 0 (Originalausgabe: The Habsburg Empire: A New ...
Oliver Kühschelm, Klemens Kaps
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Empire and its Discontents. Circulation of Knowledge and the Emergence of Eugenics in the Late Habsburg Empire [PDF]
The circulation of knowledge poses new questions to the scholarship on eugenics in the Habsburg Empire. Focusing on imperial networks and the cognitive management of imperial diversity, this paper analyses three cases of imperial circulation of eugenic ...
Vojtěch Pojar
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Historical origins of corruption in the Romanian public health system - path dependency and contagion effect [PDF]
Background In this paper, we estimate the long-lasting influence of the former Habsburg Empire's border on the territory of Romania, specifically on the prevalence of corrupt behaviour and practices in health services.
Aurelian-Petruş Plopeanu
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Mid-19th Century Road Network Dataset for Galicia and Austrian Silesia, Habsburg Empire [PDF]
Dominik Kaim +2 more
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Background: The aim of the article is to present the tourist potential of the routes of rulers’ journeys in the territories of modern countries belonging to former empires.
Agnieszka Bogdal-Brzezinska
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THE EVOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL CONTRASTS IN THE PERIOD 1775-1918, BETWEEN THE HISTORICAL BUCOVINA AND THE EXTRABUCOVINEAN TERRITORY [PDF]
The political map of Europe underwent numerous changes at the end of the century XVIII, determined by the periods of expansion of the great powers. The agreements regarding the cession of some territories were manifested without the endorsement of the ...
Cristian Ciubotaru +2 more
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This article explores poems devoted to the dynastic festivities of the ruling House of Habsburg as one of the multiple instruments of fostering loyalty and dynastic patriotism, primarily in in-school youth who were regarded as future citizens of the ...
Yuliya Evgenyevna But
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Idea of the Supranational Identity in Österreichischer Plutarch by Joseph von Hormayr
This paper considers an attempt at forming imperial identity in Austria in the early nineteenth century by means of constructing historical memory. The re-interpretation of the past for the sake of promoting dynastic patriotism can be most clearly seen ...
German Sergeevich Ragozin
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