Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . .He even abolished six hundred monasteries. Besides this heattempted to govern more and more from one center wherehe could oversee matters himself, a scheme which also seemedto promise greater unity to his realms. But his peoples did notunderstand his ideas or feared the growth of his own power,. i-m- Fig. 114. Joseph II and he was opposed on every hand. He died just as the Revolu-tion in France was beginning to show that a nation could dofor itself in a f
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . .He even abolished six hundred monasteries. Besides this heattempted to govern more and more from one center wherehe could oversee matters himself, a scheme which also seemedto promise greater unity to his realms. But his peoples did notunderstand his ideas or feared the growth of his own power,. i-m- Fig. 114. Joseph II and he was opposed on every hand. He died just as the Revolu-tion in France was beginning to show that a nation could dofor itself in a few months what a king could not do in a must be admitted, however, that the problems which con-fronted Maria Theresa and Joseph II were much more diffi-cult than thoseof France or England. Poles, Italians, Magyars,and Germans could never be united into one state by suchcommon interests as Englishmen or Frenchmen have felt sokeenly in the last two centuries. Instead of fusing together to fie na-l state Rise of Russia and Prussia; Austria 423 form a nation, the peoples ruled over by the Hapsburgs were Why Austriaon such bad terms with each other that it often seemed as if ^gjop as ^they would split apart, forming separate nations. Moreover, ^.S^^since some of these peoples, especially the Slavs, Poles, andRoumanians, lived in neighboring states as well, the Hapsburgmonarchy was always much concerned in what happened
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