Historical Scholarship on the Habsburg Monarchy (1526–1918) in North America

Abstract

Historians in the United States and Canada did little writing or teaching on the Habsburg Monarchy before 1914, but the two world wars and immigration from Central and East Central Europe gave strong impetus to studies of the Monarchy. Politics and international relations initially dominated North American writings on the Monarchy. After the 1970s American and Canadian historians developed revisionist views of modern economic development in the Habsburg lands and after the early 1980s new, more dynamic understandings of modern national identification, the development of governmental structures, and relations between state and society during the nineteenth century.