The Habsburg Monarchy 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire

by Paula Sutter Fichtner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333737288
• ISBN13: 9780333737286
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"