Abstract
Abstract It is a truism that the Habsburg Monarchy seriously mismanaged the celebrated ‘nationality principle’ of the nineteenth century, or, to put it more bluntly, modern nationalism was ‘the chief factor in the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire’. As early as 1830, the Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer had summed up the various national ‘provinces’ of the Monarchy as ‘horses absurdly harnessed together [. . . who] will scatter in all directions as soon as the advancing spirit of the times will weaken and break the bonds’.²
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