Download or read book A History of the Austrian Army from Maria Theresia to the Present Day written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Bayard Taylor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayard Taylor's 'A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day' provides a comprehensive narrative of Germany's rich history, including events up until the late 1800s. Taylor's meticulous research and skillful storytelling provide readers with a clear understanding of Germany's past, from the ancient Germans to the establishment of the German Empire. TWhile originally designed for use in schools, the book's engaging writing style and breadth of knowledge make it a must-read for anyone interested in German history. Taylor's aim was to create a continuous narrative that preserves a distinct line of connection from century to century, and he achieved just that. Dive into Germany's fascinating past and discover the significant role this country has played in shaping the world we live in today.
Download or read book Maria Theresa written by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Theresa, situating this exceptional empress within her time while dispelling the myths surrounding her. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childcare, ceremonial life at court, diplomacy, and the everyday indignities of warfare. She challenges the idealized image of Maria Theresa as an enlightened reformer and mother of her lands who embodied both feminine beauty and virile bellicosity, showing how she despised the ideas of the Enlightenment, treated her children with relentless austerity, and mercilessly persecuted Protestants and Jews. Work, consistent physical and mental discipline, and fear of God were the principles Maria Theresa lived by, and she demanded the same from her family, her court, and her subjects. A panoramic work of scholarship that brings Europe's age of empire spectacularly to life, Maria Theresa paints an unforgettable portrait of the uncompromising yet singularly charismatic woman who left her enduring mark on the era in which she lived and reigned.
Download or read book Maria Theresa of Austria written by Alexander J. Mahan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the biography of Maria Theresa of Austria, the only female ruler of the Habsburg Dominions written by J. Alexander Mahan, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in this fascinating woman.
Download or read book History of the World from the Creation of Man to the Present Day written by Georg Weber and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outlines of Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Present Time written by Georg Weber and published by Boston : Brewer and Tileston ; Philadelphia : Eldredge. This book was released on 1853 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outlines of Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Present Time Tr from the German of Dr George Weber and Dr M Behr written by Georg Weber and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Modern Germany written by Hajo Holborn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... A three-volume reassessment of the last five centuries of German history ...
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Download or read book Austria s Wars of Emergence 1683 1797 written by Michael Hochedlinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in creating and holding together the Habsburg Monarchy. Drawing on an impressive up-to-date bibliography as well as on original archival research, this survey is the first to put Vienna’s military back at the centre stage of early modern Austrian history.
Download or read book Iron and Blood written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before the rise of Prussia and the world wars. German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting. Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically. Both the empire and the Swiss Confederation were largely defensive in orientation, while German participation in foreign wars was most often in partnership with allies. The primary aggressor in Central Europe was not Prussia but the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, yet Austria’s strength owed much to its ability to secure allies. Prussia, meanwhile, invested in militarization but maintained a part-time army well into the nineteenth century. Alongside Switzerland, which relied on traditional militia, both states exemplify the longstanding civilian element within German military power. Only after Prussia’s unexpected victory over France in 1871 did Germans and outsiders come to believe in a German gift for warfare—a special capacity for high-speed, high-intensity combat that could overcome numerical disadvantage. It took two world wars to expose the fallacy of German military genius. Yet even today, Wilson argues, Germany’s strategic position is misunderstood. The country now seen as a bastion of peace spends heavily on defense in comparison to its peers and is deeply invested in less kinetic contemporary forms of coercive power.
Download or read book Outlines of Universal History written by Georg Weber and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Germany from the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by Wolfgang Menzel and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maria Theresa written by Edward Crankshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years. Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront her, and trusting in the honour of her fellow monarchs, the young queen found herself with a virtually nonexistent army at the head of a bankrupt and disaffected empire - an empire shortly to be set upon by half Europe intent on shattering the Habsburg power for ever. Married to an amiable but ineffectual husband whom she adored, surrounded by shortsighted advisers senile to the point of decrepitude, her only weapons were her charm, her unbreakable will, and her almost reckless courage. With these, and by her own immense exertions, she first held her powerful enemies at bay; then, choosing new advisers with astonishing skill, and discovering in herself a fund of commonsense amounting almost to genius, she instituted wide-reaching reforms which were to unify the Empire's bewildering mixture of lands and peoples, and bring it to the threshold of the revolutionary age. With all this she remained a wife and a mother - most touchingly so in her vast correspondence with her many children.
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