The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
Autor Martyn Radyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2022
InThe 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 endurance, 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 Habsburg emperors were themselves absurdly varied in their characters - from warlords to contemplatives, from clever to stupid, from idle to frenzied - but all driven by the same sense of family mission. Scattered around the world, countless buildings, institutions and works of art continue to bear witness to their overwhelming impact.
The Habsburgsis the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that, for better or worse, shaped Europe and the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141987200
ISBN-10: 0141987200
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141987200
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Martyn
Radyis
Masaryk
Professor
of
Central
European
History
at
University
College
London.
He
has
written
several
major
works
on
the
history
of
Hungary,
from
the
medieval
period
to
the
twentieth
century,
but
has
also
written
on
topics
as
diverse
as
the
Hussites,
vampirism
and
the
Emperor
Charles
V.
He
has
honorary
doctorates
from
the
Károli
University
in
Budapest
and
the
Lucian
Blaga
University
of
Sibiu
in
Romania.
Recenzii
This
is
probably
the
best
book
ever
written
on
the
Habsburgs
in
any
language,
certainly
the
best
I
have
ever
read...
a
brilliant
achievement.
Students,
scholars
and
the
general
reader
will
never
find
a
better
guide
to
Habsburg
history.
No
one
will
ever
again
know
as
much
about
the
subject
as
Rady.
Riveting ...It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty.
InThe Habsburgs, Martyn Rady has produceda Rolls-Royce of a narrativethat motors through ten centuries of historywith an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet ... The vast cast of characters is depicted with a mix of insight, sympathy and astringent Gibbonian wit that makes them instantly memorable ... [Rady's] booksheds light on the present almost as brightly as it illuminates the past.
Magnificent... Rady maintains unerring poise as he steers through the depths and complexities of his material.His erudition seems effortless, he never gets bogged down in detail, his prose is pellucid, and he spices the narrative with delightfully dry asides and telling anecdotes.
Rady restores the Habsburgs to the heart of European history ... Anenjoyable, clever and colourfulintroduction to the subject, with plenty of memorable details.
The Habsburgs are a writer's gift, offering a regal cast of mad, colourful and deeply flawed characters ...Rady'ssparkling study is certainly a good place to start.
This volume takes it all in. That Mr. Rady can, in under 350 pages, cover everything from the division of the family's lands in the Swiss Argau in 990 to the surrender of power in 1918 by Charles, the last Habsburg monarch, without sacrificing essential details or losing the reader's attention, isa feat of both scholarship and storytelling.
Anambitious, wide-ranging, briskly written narrativethat crams a vast amount of often surprising information into twenty-nine dense but very readable chapters.
Lucid and entertaining... Rady is as good on the Habsburgs' artistic and cultural legacy as he is on the politics.
This panoramic account manages to make more sense of the European dynasty than its rulers often did.
The Habsburgsisgripping, colorful, and dramatic but also concise, scholarly, and magisterial... Revealing a key player in world history for almost a thousand years,The Habsburgsis a chronicle of high politics and family intimacy involving religion, murder, incest, madness, suicide, assassination.History on an epic scale!
It's staggering how much of the continent we recognise today is the result of the machinations of one family, much of it inbred and with really weird chins, andRady manages to condense the story into one pacy and highly readable accountof generations of chancers, liars, political masterminds, battlefield heroes and ruthless schemers who shaped Europe for centuries.
The Habsburgs were once Europe's foremost royal family. Rady tells their story with verve and authority, casting a curious eye over their eccentricities and peccadilloes while all the time revealing their extraordinary influence and global vision.A fascinating read!
A tour de force. Thorough, accessible, and resolutely erudite, this is the volume that this vitally important subject so desperately needed. Martyn Rady should be congratulated.
Martyn Rady has written a splendid account of the grandest old dynasty of Europe: the Habsburgs. With wit and firm opinion, he takes the reader on something akin to a tour of theWunderkammerof the dynasty's many-centuries-long career. Including vampires, an empress's waist size, and cocaine-laced health drinks,Rady's narrative glitters with apt quotes and telling, often ironic details.
This profile of the Habsburgs is concerned as much with the personal as it is the political. It is a tale of survival, from modest origins to control of an empire and, finally, twentieth-century catastrophe.
This is a first global history of Europe's most famous and durable dynasty, chronicling its exploits with great panache over nearly a millennium of rule across wide swathes of the continent and beyond. His text is accessible and entertaining, his ready wit providing a delectable counterpoint to the notorious humourlessness of so many of the dynasts he examines.
Riveting ...It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty.
InThe Habsburgs, Martyn Rady has produceda Rolls-Royce of a narrativethat motors through ten centuries of historywith an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet ... The vast cast of characters is depicted with a mix of insight, sympathy and astringent Gibbonian wit that makes them instantly memorable ... [Rady's] booksheds light on the present almost as brightly as it illuminates the past.
Magnificent... Rady maintains unerring poise as he steers through the depths and complexities of his material.His erudition seems effortless, he never gets bogged down in detail, his prose is pellucid, and he spices the narrative with delightfully dry asides and telling anecdotes.
Rady restores the Habsburgs to the heart of European history ... Anenjoyable, clever and colourfulintroduction to the subject, with plenty of memorable details.
The Habsburgs are a writer's gift, offering a regal cast of mad, colourful and deeply flawed characters ...Rady'ssparkling study is certainly a good place to start.
This volume takes it all in. That Mr. Rady can, in under 350 pages, cover everything from the division of the family's lands in the Swiss Argau in 990 to the surrender of power in 1918 by Charles, the last Habsburg monarch, without sacrificing essential details or losing the reader's attention, isa feat of both scholarship and storytelling.
Anambitious, wide-ranging, briskly written narrativethat crams a vast amount of often surprising information into twenty-nine dense but very readable chapters.
Lucid and entertaining... Rady is as good on the Habsburgs' artistic and cultural legacy as he is on the politics.
This panoramic account manages to make more sense of the European dynasty than its rulers often did.
The Habsburgsisgripping, colorful, and dramatic but also concise, scholarly, and magisterial... Revealing a key player in world history for almost a thousand years,The Habsburgsis a chronicle of high politics and family intimacy involving religion, murder, incest, madness, suicide, assassination.History on an epic scale!
It's staggering how much of the continent we recognise today is the result of the machinations of one family, much of it inbred and with really weird chins, andRady manages to condense the story into one pacy and highly readable accountof generations of chancers, liars, political masterminds, battlefield heroes and ruthless schemers who shaped Europe for centuries.
The Habsburgs were once Europe's foremost royal family. Rady tells their story with verve and authority, casting a curious eye over their eccentricities and peccadilloes while all the time revealing their extraordinary influence and global vision.A fascinating read!
A tour de force. Thorough, accessible, and resolutely erudite, this is the volume that this vitally important subject so desperately needed. Martyn Rady should be congratulated.
Martyn Rady has written a splendid account of the grandest old dynasty of Europe: the Habsburgs. With wit and firm opinion, he takes the reader on something akin to a tour of theWunderkammerof the dynasty's many-centuries-long career. Including vampires, an empress's waist size, and cocaine-laced health drinks,Rady's narrative glitters with apt quotes and telling, often ironic details.
This profile of the Habsburgs is concerned as much with the personal as it is the political. It is a tale of survival, from modest origins to control of an empire and, finally, twentieth-century catastrophe.
This is a first global history of Europe's most famous and durable dynasty, chronicling its exploits with great panache over nearly a millennium of rule across wide swathes of the continent and beyond. His text is accessible and entertaining, his ready wit providing a delectable counterpoint to the notorious humourlessness of so many of the dynasts he examines.