The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815

William D. Godsey, Austrian Academy of Sciences,Petr Mat'a, Austrian Academy of Sciences

William D. Godsey is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His most recent book is The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820 (Oxford, 2018), which won the Arenberg European History
Prize 2018 and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Honorable Mention 2019. He co-edited Das Haus Arenberg und die Habsburgermonarchie: Eine transterritoriale Adelsfamilie zwischen Fürstendienst und Eigenständigkeit (16.-20. Jahrhundert) (Regensburg, 2019). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.


Petr Mat'a is a Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Having earned his PhD at the Charles University in Prague in 2005, he began his academic career in Vienna with the Lise Meitner-Fellowship. He has lectured in history at the
University of Vienna since 2008 and was EURIAS-Fellow at CEU in Budapest 2012/2013. His areas of study include the history of the provincial Estates, nobilities and administration in the early modern Habsburg Monarchy. He is a co-editor and co-author of the Verwaltungsgeschichte der
Habsburgermonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit (1500-1800) (volume 1 appeared in Vienna, 2019). He is currently preparing his Habilitationsschrift comparing the provincial diets in the Bohemian and Austrian lands for publication.

Introduction: The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State, WILLIAM D. GODSEY AND PETR MAT'A
1. The Austrian Fiscal-Military State in International Perspective, HAMISH SCOTT
2. The Fiscal-Military Constitution of Bourbon France in Comparative Perspective, GUY ROWLANDS
3. The European Fiscal-Military System and the Habsburg Monarchy, PETER H. WILSON
4. Hungarian Border Defence and the Habsburg Financial and Military Transformation in the 16th Century, ISTVÁN KENYERES AND GÉZA PÁLFFY
5. The General War Commissariat: A Neglected Pivot of the Habsburg Fiscal-Military State, THOMAS WINKELBAUER
6. Magnates and Military Contracting in Hungary after 1648, ANDRÁS OROSS
7. Fiscal-Military Exigency and Authority in 17th-Century Moravia, JI`RÍ DAVID
8. Negotiating Fiscal-Military Coordination: Provincial Tax Quotas for the Habsburg Army 1648-1748, PETR MAT'A
9. The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Fiscal-Military System c. 1606-1806, PETER RAUSCHER
10. Noble Enterprisers: Regimental Proprietorship in the Habsburg Army, HORST CARL
11. Habsburg War Finance and Noble Credit-Brokerage in the Southern Netherlands under Charles VI, VERONIKA HYDEN-HANSCHO
12. The Rise of a Sustainable Public Debt in the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy, WILLIAM D. GODSEY
13. Conscription in the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-92, ILYA BERKOVICH
14. Free Money for War? Wartime Subsidies and the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy, PATRICK SWOBODA
15. The 'Business of War' in Hungary: Saltpetre Contracting during the Napoleonic Period, ORSOLYA SZAKÁLY