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The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815

New Approaches to European History series

This comprehensive history of the Habsburg monarchy challenges the conventional notion of its backwardness—tracing the monarchy's emergence as a military and cultural power of influence, with a significant population and industrial base as well as progressive judicial and educational systems.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 276 pages

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