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Ebook About 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.Book The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Review :
This is a wonderful book of the Nancy Mitford school of history, short with funny, telling details on every page. A few examples, picked at random:Maria Theresa needed money: "When the diets complained, the empress was tough... 'the Crown expressly commands you to grant these sums voluntarily.' Sounds completely voluntary.The emperor was big on science and collected specimens from all over the world: "The [imperial] zoo was opened to the public in 1778, although it was a requirement that visitors came properly dressed. Thankfully, it never functioned in the manner of Louis XIV's collection at Versailles, where tigers fought elephants for the king's amusement."The Revolution of 1848: "By nightfall, Vienna was in chaos. Mobs looted shops and workplaces in the suburbs, assaulting the well-to-do and breaking into bakeries and tobacconists. In the centre, rioters pulled up street lights to use them as battering rams and lit the escaping gas at pavement level to send sheets of flame into the darkness." Sounds like Portland.Identity politics: "In Hungary, the taverns were differentiated by the alcohol they served-- beer for Germans, wine for Hungarians, and cheap brandy for the rest. Even in their cups, the different national groups were reported to be different, the Hungarians becoming melancholy, the German talkative, the Romanian violent, and the Ruthenian incoherent....One soldier wrote his diary in four different languages-- German for regimental matters, Slovene when thinking about his girlfriend, Serbian for songs he recalled, and Hungarian for his sexual fantasies."I would guess the author is of Hungarian (or Austro/Hungarian) background. The chapters on Austria and Hungary are much the best, those on Charles V and Philip II and the Spanish empire less than perfunctory, but for what he knows and writes best about, this is an exemplary book. As a citizen of an ex-Habsburg country (Hungary) it was eye-opening for me to see how this dynasty connected the history of many parts of Europe. For example it was intriguing to see, how the fate of Spanish Habsburgs was connected to the Rákóczi uprising in Hungary that Hungarian history textbooks often fail to mention. But my final question remained unanswered: what made the Habsburgs so special so that they had this huge historical footprint? Still, I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in continental Europe. Read Online The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Download The Habsburgs: To Rule the World The Habsburgs: To Rule the World PDF The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Mobi Free Reading The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Download Free Pdf The Habsburgs: To Rule the World PDF Online The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Mobi Online The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Reading Online The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Read Online Martyn C. Rady Download Martyn C. Rady Martyn C. Rady PDF Martyn C. Rady Mobi Free Reading Martyn C. Rady Download Free Pdf Martyn C. Rady PDF Online Martyn C. Rady Mobi Online Martyn C. Rady Reading Online Martyn C. RadyBest Blood Work (Terry Mccaleb 1) By Michael Connelly
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