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Article: The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848: Attributes of Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Paula Sutter Fichtner. Palgrave Macmillan. 49.50 [pounds sterling]. 222 pages. ISBN 0-333-73727-X. This latest volume in the European History in Perspective series covers the period during which the Habsburg Monarchy created the Empire which was to survive, with some new additions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, until 1918. Because the Habsburgs were survivors, the editor devotes herself to analysing 'the techniques that helped the dynasty to get its empire underway and encouraged its perpetuation'. She stops in the year when the pressure for political change began the creation of a ...