lavic and East European Review
"The importance of the present work lies in its information on Hungarian politics and society during the period of enlightened absolutism. In the course of her account, Balzs exposes several of the myths which have worked their way into the English-language accounts of late eighteenth-century Hungary. She convincingly demonstrates, therefore, that the upper reaches of the Hungarian aristocracy were by no means 'Austrianized' elite, but that they always retained close connections with their homeland."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
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Professor R. J. Evans, University of Oxford -1997
"Eva H. Balazs's work is a brilliant historical essay and represents the very peak of modern scholarship on Enlightement political and economical reforms in Central Europe. The author is one of the leading historians of the eighteenth century and her grasp of the issues involved in Enlightened economic and politicl reform, in my opinion, is second to none . . .a historiographical achievement of exceptional value. In addition, Professor Balazs's interpretation is of the highest intellectual quality." (Dr. Istvan Hont, University of Cambridge -1997)
"In great historical debate about enlightened absolutism, the Austria of Maria Theresa and Joseph II occupies a prominent place. Hungary has been, by contrast, largely ignored by international scholarship, usually dismissed as a mere backward and recalcitrant province. In this book Eva H. Balazs, one of the foremost living authorities on eighteenth century Central Europe, repairs that omission and demonstrates that neither state-building nor modernization in the Habsburg lands can be understood without close reference to Hungary."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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