Wheatcroft, Andrew,   1944-  <br/><br/>
The Habsburgs :   embodying empire / 
Andrew Wheatcroft. 
 - London :  Penguin Books,  1996. 
 - xxix, 384 pages, [16] pages of plates :   illustrations (some col.), geneal. tables, maps, portraits. (some col.) ;  20 cm. 
 - Penguin history  .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-368) and index. 
<br/><br/>The Castle of the Hawk 1020-1300; cosa nostra (our cause) 1300-1400; universal empire 1400-1500; el dorado (the golden one) 1500-1550; a war to the last extremity 1550-1660; Felix Austria - the happy state 1660-1790; the last cavalier 1790-1916; finis Austriae - the end? 1916-1995. Family trees - The House of Habsburg 1000-1922. 
<br/><br/> The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a 'history of atrocities'; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband's decaying body; the 'heroically fertile' Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, 'Emperor' of Mexico. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780140236347 0140236341 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Casa de Habsburgo 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Austria--Historia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>304 DB 36  / W556h 1996