The Multinational Empire Revisited: Reflections on Late Imperial Austria

Abstract

Robert kann's first book, The Multinational Empire , published in two large volumes in 1950, has become a classic in its field. As Stanley Winters has well said, “It is rare when a scholar's first book establishes its author in the front rank of his field, and it is rarer still when the book remains a standard work for the balance of his lifetime”. In 1964, a considerably enlarged German edition was published.