... , that all would have been different - and usually better - had only this or that occurred instead. One British historian, C. A. Macartney, should also be ranked in this school. In his 1978 book, The House of Austria, Macartney refers to an exact day: 28 January 1790 that marks The turning point in the central Monarchy ', Joseph II had been forced to revoke most ... empire. It was the age of nationalism and as Eric Hobsbawm stated, any body of people considering themselves a nation' claimed the right to self-determination, which meant the right to a separate sovereign independent state f...

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