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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198730853

ISBN-139780198730859

eBay Product ID (ePID)1411795

Product Key Features

Number of Pages556 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMaking of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700 : an Interpretation

Publication Year1984

SubjectEurope / Austria & Hungary, Europe / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorRobert John Weston Evans

Subject AreaHistory

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight26 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN79-040616

Reviews"The Habsburg monarchy dominated European history for nearly half a millennium. Until the publication...of this excellent book no one had really explained why....Evans' book, which won the Wolfson Literary Award for History in 1980, grapples expertly with the numerous problems which inhibited many an earlier scholar."--Times Literary Supplement"[A]s a compendium and reference book for the intellectual history of this period the volume...with its excellent bibliography and good appendices, can be regarded as a standard work."--Austrian History Yearbook, "The Habsburg monarchy dominated European history for nearly half a millennium. Until the publication...of this excellent book no one had really explained why....Evans' book, which won the Wolfson Literary Award for History in 1980, grapples expertly with the numerous problems which inhibited many an earlier scholar."--Times Literary Supplement "as a compendium and reference book for the intellectual history of this period the volume...with its excellent bibliography and good appendices, can be regarded as a standard work."--Austrian History Yearbook, "The Habsburg monarchy dominated European history for nearly half a millennium. Until the publication...of this excellent book no one had really explained why....Evans' book, which won the Wolfson Literary Award for History in 1980, grapples expertly with the numerous problems which inhibited many an earlier scholar."--Times Literary Supplement "[A]s a compendium and reference book for the intellectual history of this period the volume...with its excellent bibliography and good appendices, can be regarded as a standard work."--Austrian History Yearbook, The most significant contribution in any language to the history of early modern Austrian Habsburgs., "the most significant contribution in any language to the history of early modern Austrian Habsburgs." --The Times Higher Education Supplement

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal943.6/03

SynopsisThis book examines and accounts for the emergence of a powerful Habsburg state in central Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Charting the transformation of the Habsburg lands from a casual juxtaposition of territories into a major and reasonably stable commonwealth, Evans examines the social and economic changes brought about by the Counter-Reformation, the interaction between regions and central government, and the intellectual evolution from the Renaissance to the Baroque., The most significant contribution in any language to the history of early modern Austrian Habsburgs.

LC Classification NumberD228