The Habsburgs : embodying empire
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The Habsburgs : embodying empire
Penguin, 1996
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Note
Originally published: London: Viking, 1995
Bibliography: p. 347-368
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways, to have behaved much like most other monarchies. Their story, however, is none the less enthralling for that. It is populated by such unforgettable figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa, and the quixotic Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico.
Table of Contents
- The Castle of the Hawk 1020-1300
- cosa nostra (our cause) 1300-1400
- universal empire 1400-1500
- el dorado (the golden one) 1500-1550
- a war to the last extremity 1550-1660
- Felix Austria - the happy state 1660-1790
- the last cavalier 1790-1916
- finis Austriae - the end? 1916-1995. Family trees - The House of Habsburg 1000-1922.
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