The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

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Basic Books, 25. ágú. 2020 - 416 síður
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe, stretching from Hungary to Spain, and parts of the New World and the Far East. The Habsburgs continued to dominate Central Europe through the First World War.
Historians often depict the Habsburgs as leaders of a ramshackle empire. But Rady reveals their enduring power, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace, and patrons of learning. The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that forever changed Europe and the world.
 

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A Note on Names
An Emperors Library
Castle Habsburg and the Fortinbras Effect
The Holy Roman Empire and the Golden King
Losing Place and Forging a Past
Saturn and Mars
Maximilian and the ColourCoded Kings
Ruler of the World
The Theatre of the Baroque
Maria Theresa Automata and Bureaucrats
Merchants Botanists and Freemasons
Vampirism Enlightenment and the Revolution from Above
Archduchesses and the Habsburg Low Countries
Censors Jacobins and The Magic Flute
Metternich and the Map of Europe
Franz Josephs Empire Sisi and Hungary

Hungary Bohemia and the Protestant Challenge
The New World Religious Dissent and Royal Incest
Don John and the Galleys of Lepanto
Rudolf II and the Alchemists of Prague
The Triumph of the Heretics
Ferdinand II the Holy House and Bohemia
The Thirty Years World War
The Abnormal Empire and the Battle for Vienna
Spains Invisible Sovereigns and the Death of the Bewitched
Maximilian Mexico and Royal Deaths
The Politics of Discontent and the 1908 Jubilee
Explorers Jews and the Worlds Knowledge
Franz Ferdinand and Bosnia
World War and Dissolution
Conclusion
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Martyn Rady is Masaryk professor of Central European history at University College London. A leading expert on Central Europe, he is the author of The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction, The Emperor Charles V, and other books on Hungarian and Romanian history. He lives in Kent, UK.

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