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Toronto, Ontario, where he wrote this Extended Essay for Mr. McKell during the 2002/2003 academic year. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1867
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| Author | Kwok, James |
| Abstract | A variety of cultures and races lived under the rule of the Habsburgs from their rise to power in 1278 to the empire’s eventual dissolution in 1918.1 For some time since 1848, the Austro-Hungarian empire had been weakening. As a result of internal nationalist fervor it was also facing the prospect of a revolt, one as wide-ranging as the Springtime of the Peoples.2 Nationalists such as Camillo di Cavour and Otto von Bismarck3 were liberating the Austrian-occupied lands of Italy and Prussia. The threat of empire-wide dissolution was quickly becoming a reality for the Habsburg ruler of Austria, Franz Joseph.4 Having no military method with which to suppress the kingdom’s internal Hungarian nationalism, Franz Joseph signed a compromise in 1867 with the Magyars,5 a group of upper middle class bourgeoisie living in Hungary, to pacify their growing dissat-isfaction with the status quo. The industrial revolution had enabled |
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| Subject Keyword | Internal Nationalist Fervor Internal Hungarian Nationalism Otto Von Bismarck3 Empire-wide Dissolution Empire Eventual Dissolution Austrian-occupied Land Franz Joseph Upper Middle Class Bourgeoisie Living Austro-hungarian Empire Military Method Habsburg Ruler Extended Essay |
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