The Habsburg And Hohenzollern Dynasties In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
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| Author | : Carlile Aylmer Macartney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Between them, the Habsburg and Hohenzollern dynasties controlled the fortunes of central Europe through most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Habsburgs had fallen heir to what was left of the Holy Roman Empire. They were a long-established house and ruled in Austria, the Tirol, Hungary, Bohemia (not to become Czechoslovakia until modern times), and parts of Germany. The Hohenzollerns in 1600 were far less august, their lands little more than a medium-sized principality that had started as the Mark of Brandenburg. Yet, within two hundred years, they were challenging the leadership pf the Habsburgs, expanding their territories and organizing the military Prussian state while the rival house. in a sense, squandered its heritage through division of authority and indifferent government.These were troubled centuries, filled with turmoil and dramatic events. Religion was a divisive force in the Habsburg lands, where the rulers were Roman Catholic and the Estates representing the privileged classes were Protestant. The Thirty Years' War, arising from religious tensions, was won at horrendous cost by the Habsburgs, who then instituted repressive policies. The war with the Turks brought forth the heroic figures of the Pole Sobieski, who delivered besieged Vienna, and Eugene of Savoy, whose generalship proved decisive. In 1740 the bloody heritage passes on to the young Maria Theresa. The spirited empress brought her lands many economic, cultural, and social reforms despite more wars, including the onslaught of the Hohenzollern Frederick the Great. The extraordinary Fredrick was the culmination of the dynasty of Hohenzollerns. Almost every one of them added to the house's lands, enlarged the army, and helped to construct an imposing bureaucracy. Frederick was the prototype of the enlightened-century France. No mere dilettante, by the end of his reign he had fully doubted the wealth of his dominions and doubled their size. An ample selection in this very useful volume of documentary materials is devoted to Frederick, balancing in the deserved emphasis in the first half of his Habsburg contemporary, Maria Theresa.
| Author | : Paula Sutter Fichtner |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2014-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780233140 |
The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such a decisive role in the fate of the continent? Paula Sutter Fichtner seeks to answer this question in this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire. Tracing the origins of the house of Habsburg to the tenth century, Fichtner identifies the principal characters in the story and explores how they were able to hold together such a culturally diverse and multiethnic state for so many centuries. She takes account of the intertwining of culture, politics, and society, revealing the strategies that enabled the dynasty’s extraordinarily long life: its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances, and cunning political maneuvering. She points out the irony that one of the crowd-pleasing performances that had enabled the Habsburg success—visiting beds of the injured—led to Ferdinand’s death and the empire’s downfall. Breathing fresh life into the history of the Habsburg reign, this accessible and authoritative history charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe.
| Author | : Ian D. Armour |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2012-11-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 184966661X |
A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations and Modernisation provides a comprehensive, authoritative account of the region during a troubled period that finished with the First World War. Ian Armour focuses on the three major themes that have defined Eastern Europe in the modern period - empire, nationhood and modernisation - whilst chronologically tracing the emergence of Eastern Europe as a distinct concept and place. Detailed coverage is given to the Habsburg, Ottoman, German and Russian Empires that struggled for dominance during this time. In this exciting new edition, Ian Armour incorporates findings from new research into the nature and origins of nationalism and the attempts of supranational states to generate dynastic loyalties as well as concepts of empire. Armour's insightful guide to early Eastern Europe considers the important figures and governments, analyses the significant events and discusses the socio-economic and cultural developments that are crucial to a rounded understanding of the region in that era. Features of this new edition include: * A fully updated and enlarged bibliography and notes * Eight useful maps * Updated content throughout the text A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918 is the ideal textbook for students studying Eastern European history.
| Author | : A. Wess Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2019-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691196443 |
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Yet somehow Austria endured, outlasting Ottoman sieges, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. A. Wess Mitchell tells the story of how this cash-strapped, polyglot empire survived for centuries in Europe's most dangerous neighborhood without succumbing to the pressures of multisided warfare. He shows how the Habsburgs played the long game in geopolitics, corralling friend and foe alike into voluntarily managing the empire's lengthy frontiers and extending a benign hegemony across the turbulent lands of middle Europe. The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire offers lessons on how to navigate a messy geopolitical map, stand firm without the advantage of military predominance, and prevail against multiple rivals.
| Author | : Martyn Rady |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2017-03-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0192511343 |
The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands around the Mediterranean and a chunk of the New World, spreading eastwards to include the Philippines. Reaching from South-East Asia to what is now Ukraine, the Habsburg Empire was truly global. In this Very Short Introduction Martin Rady looks at the history of the Habsburgs, from their tenth-century origins in Switzerland, to the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. He introduces the pantheon of Habsburg rulers, which included adventurers, lunatics, and at least one monarch who was so malformed that his true portrait could never be exhibited. He also discusses the lands and kingdoms that made up the Habsburg Empire, and the decisive moments that shaped their history. Dynasty, Europe, global power, and the idea of the multi-national state all converge on the history of the Habsburg Empire. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
| Author | : Martyn Rady |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2020-08-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1541644492 |
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.
| Author | : Paula Sutter Fichtner |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137106425 |
The Habsburg monarchy was a singular experiment in diversity within the European continent. By the eighteenth century it stretched from the Austrian Netherlands to the Balkans and southern Poland, and south into Italy. Its subjects spoke a number of languages, and while the social and institutional structure of these lands shared common features, there were also substantial differences among them. Was the Habsburg monarchy therefore an empire like those of Great Britain, France or Spain? Drawing upon modern theoretical perspectives on European expansion to answer this question, Paula Sutter Fichtner argues that the Habsburg holdings did indeed constitute a form of European imperialism, and that they are best understood in such terms. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848 - Examines the role of the interraction between Habsburg rulers, territorial estates, and religious institutions in the expansion of the empire - Explores the reorientation of these relationships under the impact of the European Enlightenment, the rationalization of dynastic government under Empress Maria Theresa and her son, Joseph II, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of nationalism - Assesses the effect of the Revolutions of 1848 on the strength of the connections between the crown and its nobles, as well as its ties to its ecclesiastical elites and the bourgeoisie - Discusses the parallel developments in cultural affairs as the coherence of a world outlook dominated by Catholicism gave way to linguistic and cultural particularism Incorporating the latest research, this broad-ranging study is an essential guide to one of Europe's most powerful and important dynasties.
| Author | : Derek Mckay |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2018-10-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317870476 |
In this first biography in English for fifty years, Derek McKay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened' Frederick the Great. Instead, he roots him firmly in his own time, a dynastic, protestant ruler like many another in Germany, but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers.
| Author | : Peter H. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1038 |
| Release | : 2019-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 067424625X |
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals—the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war’s end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country’s greatest disaster. An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson’s masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict. For a map of Central Europe in 1618, referenced on page XVI, please visit this book’s page on the Harvard University Press website.
| Author | : Paul Harold Beik |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2016-01-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1349005266 |
