The Habsburgs: To Rule the WorldBasic 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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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 | |
Photos | |
Abbreviations | |
Also by Martyn Rady | |
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