“Glory, grief, loss – and incest – are all covered in this panoramic account that makes more sense of the great European dynasty than its rulers often did.” - The Guardian If the Habsburgs could last for a millennium, surely a constitutional republic can."- Wall Street Journal In an era of schisms, America needs a unifying idea of itself as something greater than the sum of its parts. It's not hard to see current parallels to this story.
"A feat of both scholarship and storytelling. The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that forever changed Europe and the world. 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. Historians often depict the Habsburgs as leaders of a ramshackle empire. The Habsburgs continued to dominate Central Europe through the First World War. 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. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium.
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
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