Pieter M. Judson has taught at the European University Institute in Florence from 2014-2024 and at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History. Judson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1987) and has authored several books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe. He has served as President of the Central European History Society of North America and as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. He received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, Marshall, the IFK (Vienna), the American Academy in Berlin, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize.Tara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, globalization, and the history of dance. She was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction 1: Why War? Austria-Hungary, Europe, the World, 1900-1914 2: Mobilizations 3: The Fortunes of War: Occupation Regimes 4: The Empire in Camps: Refugees & POWS 5: Entitled Citizens: Empire, Citizenship, and the Welfare State 6: Revolutions 7: The Enduring Empire Conclusion

...Judson and Zahra have produced a highly readable account that is recommended to those seeking to look beyond the Anglocentric focus of much of the English language literature.

Pieter M. Judson has taught at the European University Institute in Florence from 2014-2024 and at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History. Judson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1987) and has authored several books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe. He has served as President of the Central European History Society of North America and as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. He received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, Marshall, the IFK (Vienna), the American Academy in Berlin, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize.Tara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, globalization, and the history of dance. She was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction 1: Why War? Austria-Hungary, Europe, the World, 1900-1914 2: Mobilizations 3: The Fortunes of War: Occupation Regimes 4: The Empire in Camps: Refugees & POWS 5: Entitled Citizens: Empire, Citizenship, and the Welfare State 6: Revolutions 7: The Enduring Empire Conclusion

...Judson and Zahra have produced a highly readable account that is recommended to those seeking to look beyond the Anglocentric focus of much of the English language literature.

Pieter M. Judson has taught at the European University Institute in Florence from 2014-2024 and at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History. Judson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1987) and has authored several books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe. He has served as President of the Central European History Society of North America and as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. He received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, Marshall, the IFK (Vienna), the American Academy in Berlin, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize.Tara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, globalization, and the history of dance. She was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship in 2014 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction 1: Why War? Austria-Hungary, Europe, the World, 1900-1914 2: Mobilizations 3: The Fortunes of War: Occupation Regimes 4: The Empire in Camps: Refugees & POWS 5: Entitled Citizens: Empire, Citizenship, and the Welfare State 6: Revolutions 7: The Enduring Empire Conclusion

...Judson and Zahra have produced a highly readable account that is recommended to those seeking to look beyond the Anglocentric focus of much of the English language literature.