Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Nomenclature and the Perils of Habsburg History -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Dynamics of Austrian Governance, 1780-1848 -- Chapter 2: The Madness of Count Stadion -- or, Austria Between Revolution and Reaction -- Chapter 3: The Reforging of the Habsburg State, 1849-1859 -- Chapter 4: State Building on a New Track -- Chapter 5: The Years of Procedure, 1868-1900 -- Chapter 6: Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Final Decades of the Monarchy, 1890-1914 -- Epilogue. The State of Exception: Austria's Descent into the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Index.