{"product_id":"aristocratic-redoubt","title":"Aristocratic Redoubt","description":"\u003ci\u003eAristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such facets of aristocratic life as education, wealth, religion, and ethnicity. He contends that although the pre-war aristocracy has been stereotyped as frivolous and decadent, the Austro-Hungarian nobility, and thus the monarchy, in fact had great staying power. This work is a social history of the bureaucracy of the Ballhausplatz primarily in the decade leading up to 1914, though it provides a thorough overview of the service during the entire Dualist period.","brand":"Purdue University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248793801048,"sku":"9781557531407","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781557531407.jpg?v=1780114555","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/aristocratic-redoubt","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}