Natasha Wheatley is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. She is the coeditor of Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands and Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History. Her writing has appeared in Past & Present and the London Review of Books.
"""A New Statesman Book of the Year"" ""Honorable Mention for the Robert L Jervis and Paul W Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association"" ""A really fascinating read.""---Justin Kempf, Democracy Paradox ""A valuable contribution to the extensive, and growing, historiography concerning the origins of the modern state. While others have concentrated on non-Western or Western European countries to reach their conclusions about the evolution of modern politics, Wheatley’s case study breaks new ground in its analysis of an especially difficult case, the Austrian Empire after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867."" * Choice * ""A richly rewarding book. . . . Wheatley gracefully unpacks the complicated constitutional issues faced by inhabitants of the Habsburg monarchy."" * History Today * ""Monumental. . . . Wheatley’s narrative recovers a world where international law was not a dead letter but a blueprint for a multinational and pluralistic world.""---Yosef Malka, BR!NK ""[A]n impressive and extremely ambitious narrative of the constitutional vicissitudes of a post-1848 Habsburg Empire.""---Carl Landauer, Journal of the History of International Law ""[The Life and Death of States] combines several aspects excellently, including primary source analysis and the reinterpretation of secondary sources, legal debates and political disputes. . . . Wheatley’s insightful underlining of the importance of socio-political crises for debates on the ontology and epistemology of statehood is a powerful reminder of the historically specific origins of the modern international order of states are in fact quite recent.""---Lauri von Pfaler, International Affairs"