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The Habsburgs [electronic resource] : The Rise and Fall of a World Power

Martyn Rady2020
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'The Habsburgs is gripping, colorful, and dramatic but also concise, scholarly, and magisterial ... History on an epic scale!' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem: The Biography 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 grew in power to gain 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 from the Far East to the New World. The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War. With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. But here Martyn Rady shows the reasons for the family's incredible ...
Author:
Martyn Rady, Author
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (600 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141987194
Language:
English
BRN:
428965
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