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Venice and Venetia under the Habsburgs : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198205746 : 0198205740 : 24 Oct 2002 : This volume looks at the administration of Venice and Venetia as part of the multinational Habsburg Empire in the years between the collapse of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and the death of Francis I in 1835. It presents a picture of an administration that was a hybrid of Napoleonic modernization and Habsburg bureaucratic practices.Read More

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    Having outlined the origins of Austrian control of Venetia in terms of radical political and territorial changes experienced during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, this work examines the mechanisms of Austrian rule. Early chapters focus on the uncomfortable tensions that existed between the temptation to retain a modernised machinery of state inherited from Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy, and the desire to look to models existing in the rest of the Habsburg Monarchy with the aim of creating greater uniformity with the rest of the multinational empire. Various aspects of the Habsburg system are examined to assess the burden of Austrian control in the form of taxation and conscription, and the way in which education, policing, the Church and censorship were used in sometimes surprising ways to attach the Venetian population to their Habsburg masters. Finally, the book addresses the question of what went wrong between the death of Francis I in 1835 and the Venetian insurrection of 1848-9 to alienate the population so radically.

  • 0198205740
  • 9780198205746
  • David Laven
  • 22 August 2002
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 266
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