{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/676981743034695680/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://href.li/?https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-the-austro-hungarian?utm_source=url&quot;,&quot;display_url&quot;:&quot;https://href.li/?https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-the-austro-hungarian?utm_source=url&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Habsburg federalism could have worked if not for an assassin's bullet&quot;,&quot;site_name&quot;:&quot;slowboring.com&quot;,&quot;poster&quot;:[{&quot;media_key&quot;:&quot;336ca68d9ca8eda54c7bbfc1cc55cdfa:87441b61ba8bd0eb-ef&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:698,&quot;height&quot;:600}]}\"><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-the-austro-hungarian?utm_source=url\" target=\"_blank\">The case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire</a></p><p>Ok, interesting enough, but</p><blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p>The whole empire, in fact, has a strong economic logic. Sentimentally, the Italian-speaking people of Trieste might enjoy the idea of national union with their fellow Italophones. But Trieste connected by rail to Ljubljana, Graz, Vienna, Bratislava, and beyond is a major port and commercial center. As a peripheral portion of Italy, it would be a backwater. The city\u2019s bourgeois classes know that they\u2019re better off inside the empire than out.</p></blockquote><p>Like,</p>"}