Estates and Constitution

<p> <em>Estates and Constitution</em> provides a rich account of Hungarian politics during the eighteenth century restoring the Diet to its rightful place as one of the era's major innovations in government. István M. Szijártó traces the religious economic and partisan forces that shaped the Diet putting its historical significance in international perspective and demonstrating that it played a critical role in the eventual dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.</p>