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Editorial Foreword Acknowledgments Preface Country Profile Introduction Historical Setting History - Overview Before the Habsburg Dynasty Rise of the Habsburg Empire Counter-Reformation The Baroque Era Maria Theresa and Joseph II French Revolution Age of Metternich The Revolution of 1848 and Neoabsolutism Austria-Hungary to the early 1900's The Final Years of the Empire The First Republic World War II Allied Occupation The Grand Coalition 1955-70 The Kreisky Years, 1970-83 The Society and Its Environment The Economy Government and Politics National Security Internal Security Appendix Index

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