I'll be honest and say that after thinking about it for a while, I don't think there's really anything in common between the dissolution of Austro-Hungary and the American Revolution once you get past very superficial items. Among other things, while there were many ethnic groups in the American colonies, the population was overwhelmingly of English descent (and two of the largest non English groups were the English speaking groups of Scots and Irish, which shared many cultural ties to the English already) while the Austro-Hungarian Empire was truly multi-ethnic with no group making a majority. The American revolution was also a rebellion motivated by political theory and tax policy, during a time when there were no crises or critical stresses in the Colonies. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire occurred only after 4+ years of high intensity warfare (which ALL Habsburg ethnic groups sacrificed much to contribute to) against external opponents and the actual starvation of the civilian population, which led to an effective collapse of the central government (also, the dissolution was forced on the Empire by it's external opponents, which one could argue France also did with the American colonies).

Again, to me it's very apples and oranges.

Pieter Judson's "The Habsburg Empire" would be a pretty good source for gaining a deeper understanding, but it's a full length text (over 500 pages), so I'm uncertain.

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