The Hapsburg And Hohenzollern Dynasties In The 17th And 18th 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Kelly Boyd |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 864 |
| Release | : 2019-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113678764X |
The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
| Author | : John Charles Roger Childs |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780719034619 |
This is a description of how the Nine Years War affected the British Army, both in its actual operations in the theatre of war and in its size, operative capacity and costs. This war brought about radical changes in the sizes and the associated costs of the armies of Britain, France, Austria and the United Provinces in a relatively short period. For example, the size of field armies grew from an average of about 25,000 men during the Thirty Years' War to an average of about 100,000 men in 1695 during the Nine Years War. The costs of sustaining such huge field forces in terms of food, equipment and pay brought Britain and France, in particular, fiscal crisis and a shattered economy respectively, after the peace.
| Author | : Philip G. Dwyer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2014-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317887026 |
At the beginning of the eighteenth century Prussia was but one in a mosaic of German states, but it rose to be the unchallenged leader of German-speaking Europe after the fall of Napoleon. The book goes beyond the political, military and diplomatic concerns of the Prussian elite, whose record of events is the one upon which most histories of Prussia are based, and explains its rise in relation to Prussian society as a whole. Political analysis is integrated with material on such areas as agrarian society, urban life and religion, which are not fully examined in existing histories.
| 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 | : Brian A. Pavlac |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 839 |
| Release | : 2019-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1440848564 |
Reference entries, overview essays, and primary source document excerpts survey the history and unveil the successes and failures of the longest-lasting European empire. The Holy Roman Empire endured for ten centuries. This book surveys the history of the empire from the formation of a Frankish Kingdom in the sixth century through the efforts of Charlemagne to unify the West around A.D. 800, the conflicts between emperors and popes in the High Middle Ages, and the Reformation and the Wars of Religion in the Early Modern period to the empire's collapse under Napoleonic rule. A historical overview and timeline are followed by sections on government and politics, organization and administration, individuals, groups and organizations, key events, the military, objects and artifacts, and key places. Each of these topical sections begins with an overview essay, which is followed by alphabetically arranged reference entries on significant topics. The book includes a selection of primary source documents, each of which is introduced by a contextualizing headnote, and closes with a selected, general bibliography.
