The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

Synopsis

“a feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (wall street journal)—the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated europe for centuries. In the habsburgs, martyn rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built—and then lost—over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the habsburgs gained control of the holy roman empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of europe, stretching from hungary to spain, and parts of the new world and the far east.