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Austria-Hungary, the Hapsburg empire from 1867 until its collapse in 1918. The result of a constitutional compromise (Ausgleich) between Emperor Franz Joseph and Hungary (then part of the empire), it consisted of diverse dynastic possessions and an internally autonomous kingdom of Hungary.
History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe.
Students of firearm history know that smokeless powder was invented in 1886, but few know that the Austrian military was experimenting with an entirely different propellant designed to replace blackpowder, and these tests were being conducted decades before.
Nationalism is, on the whole, seen as a bad thing, but the nation state is the fundamental unit of political power in the world so it’s worth examining some of the issues with it. The nation state is a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for…