Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule

Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides the definitive biography of Maria...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691179069
• ISBN13: 9780691179063
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 1104 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"