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In the Shadow of Russia: Eastern Europe in the Postwar World

Book by Nicholas Halasz; Ronald Press, 1959

Subjects:

Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government--1945-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...fatefully involved America and the whole world. When, in 1914, a Jugoslav fanatic killed the successor to the throne of the Hapsburgs, he fired the first shot in World War I. Hitlers tanks rumbled into Poland in 1939 and World War II began. These countries...
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The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire

Book by Martin Sicker; Praeger, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Sicker examines the geopolitical forces and other factors that brought about the political decline of the Islamic world from its zenith in the early part of the 16th century to its nadir at the beginning of the 20th. Extensive coverage is given to the Ottoman-Persian rivalry and, later, the role of ...
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Sicker examines the geopolitical forces and other factors that brought about the political decline of the Islamic world from its zenith in the early part of the 16th century to its nadir at the beginning of the 20th. Extensive coverage is given to the Ottoman-Persian rivalry and, later, the role of the European powers in contributing to the chronic instability of the Middle East.
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A Short History of Germany

Book by S. H. Steinberg; Macmillan, 1945

Subjects:

Germany--History

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Failure of Louis XIV's Dutch War

Book by Carl J. Ekberg; University of North Carolina Press, 1979

Subjects:

Dutch War, 1672-1678, France--Foreign Relations--1643-1715, Louis--Xiv--King Of France--1638-1715

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The Hague; the Austrian and Spanish Hapsburgs, Dutch Republic, and duke of Lorraine...progressed, the king thought more about the Hapsburgs and less about the Dutch; by mid-August...movement toward peace between the Austrian Hapsburgs and the Bourbons that had begun with...
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The Church in the Seventeenth Century

Book by H. Daniel-Rops, J. J. Buckingham; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963

Subjects:

Church History--17th Cent

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

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Journal Articles on: hapsburgs

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Family Members and Political Allies: The Portrait Collection of Margaret of Austria

Journal article by Dagmar Eichberger, Lisa Beaven; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995

Subjects:

Portrait painting--Collections and collecting, Portraits--Collections and collecting

Collections: Entire Library

...were certainly the two most prominent Hapsburgs represented in the Premiere Chambre...high-ranking member of the Burgundian Hapsburgs, most likely for Charles V.(65) The resemblance...the utmost importance to the Burgundian-Hapsburgs was the Spanish family of Aragon-Castile...
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State and Public Sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime

Journal article by Victor Perez-Diaz; Daedalus, Vol. 127, 1998

Subjects:

Civil society--Spain, Social history--Analysis, Spain--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...century, gathered momentum under the Hapsburgs during the period of Spanish hegemony...direction can be discerned. Though the Hapsburgs largely respected the socioeconomic order...instrument but was never reduced to it. The Hapsburgs offered to the Castilian privileged orders...
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Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place [*]

Journal article by Kenneth E. Foote, Attila Toth, Anett Arvay; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000

Subjects:

Hungary--Politics and government, Memorials--Political aspects, Monuments--Political aspects, Post-communism--Political aspects, Public history--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Rakoczi War of Independence against the Hapsburgs (1703-17 ii),but this is not as common...Turks and the land still held by the Hapsburgs. Use of the grave pole draws a subtle...to liberate Hungary from the Turks and Hapsburgs, on one hand, and the struggle against...
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Captivating the Orient: The Marquis De Renoncour's Turkish Adventure

Journal article by Paul J. Young; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 82, 2003

Subjects:

Fictitious characters--Analysis, Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Prevost, Abbe--Criticism and interpretation, Prevost, Abbe--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...battles between the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburgs, and these place names would have been...Ottoman army and the Holy League (the Hapsburgs, the pope, and Venice). Turkish forces...the end of the century. In 1684, the Hapsburgs launch a renewed assault against Ottoman...
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The Farnese Circular Courtyard at Caprarola: God, Geopolitics, Genealogy, and Gender

Journal article by Loren Partridge; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

Subjects:

Architecture, Domestic--16th century, Architecture, Italian--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...families of sixteenth-century Europe, the Hapsburgs and the Valois, are represented heraldically...22, 24). (59) Aside from the Austrian Hapsburgs and French Valois, about two-thirds of...two most important coats of arms of the Hapsburgs and the Valois above the doors aligned...

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Magazine Articles on: hapsburgs

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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

Magazine article by Meghan Dailey; Artforum International, Vol. 41, October 2002

Subjects:

Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Family--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Modernism (Art)

Collections: Entire Library

...Dailey "FAMILY" Families are the stuff of great stories, both fictional and real, from Lear and the Sopranos to the Hapsburgs and Kennedys. We are all experts on the subject, whether our expertise lies in trying to escape family--with its dynamics...
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The Prussians Invade Saxony: August 29th, 1756

Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 56, August 2006

Subjects:

Frederick II, King of Prussia--Military policy, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria--Military policy, Military strategy, War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the advantages of a large and efficient army, a well-filled treasury and a complete lack of scruple The contest with the Hapsburgs was sharpened by the fact that Frederick and Maria Theresa of Austria personally loathed each other. Prussia gained territory...
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A Faithful Servant

Magazine article by Ian Williams; The Nation, Vol. 278, February 23, 2004

Subjects:

Madam Secretary (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...the hereditary principle, this arrangement occasionally throws up outstanding incumbents, but as generations of Windsors and Hapsburgs proved, they are the exception. Reading Madam Secretary, one is forced to the conclusion that Madeleine Albright is no such...
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Notes & Comment: The Penumbra of Pedigree

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, February 1999

Subjects:

Almanach de Gotha (Periodical)--Management, Europe, Publishing industry, Royal houses--Media coverage

Collections: Entire Library

...from the famous to the obscure, with the Hapsburgs standing first. Ninety years ago that...call from the Magyar people. Even the Hapsburgs havent been free from the advances of...marriage to royalty (a sore point with the Hapsburgs: the Archduke Franz Ferdinand married...
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Penumbra of Pedigree: A Revived Reference Book Offers a Fanfare for the Common Aristo (a New Edition of the Almanach De Gotha Is Published)

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 263, February 1999

Subjects:

Aristocracy, Reference works

Collections: Entire Library

...from the famous to the obscure, with the Hapsburgs standing first. Ninety years ago that...call from the Magyar people. Even the Hapsburgs havent been free from the advances of...marriage to royalty (a sore point with the Hapsburgs: the Archduke Franz Ferdinand married...

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Newspaper Articles on: hapsburgs

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Defeating Obama; Republicans Face Major Challenges

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 27, 2008

Subjects:

Political parties

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for change, he is not for us. It has been almost two centuries since Prince von Metternich gained the first ministry of the Hapsburgs Austrian Empire by assuring the emperor that his administration would consciously avoid any "innovation." Nor will Americans...
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Alsatian Viticulture's Dual Characteristics

Newspaper article by Paul Lukacs; The Washington Times, November 6, 1996

Subjects:

Alsace

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...all Gaul," and people have fought over it ever since - Franks and Alemans, Holy Roman emperors, Protestant Swedes, Catholic Hapsburgs and, in our own century, armies in two world wars. Given its troubled past, one might expect Alsace to be a bitter, or at...
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Viennese Whirl

Newspaper article by James Gracie, Sandra Ratcliffe; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 9, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Hofburg, in the centre of the city, I met Sisi the Empress and traveller. The Hofburg is also a museum dedicated to the Hapsburgs and, within it, are the trappings of a dynasty that went in for ostentation on the grand scale. I found it difficult to...
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Romantic, Gritty Story of Immigrants and Civil War

Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, February 4, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...headquarters guard. As he watches this army in irresistible motion, he reflects on his conscripted service in the army of the Hapsburgs and his desertion under the shadow of the gallows. And he thinks of his fellow immigrants now serving in the 26th Wisconsin...
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Viennese Ball: Stately, Lavish Affair

Newspaper article by Kevin Chaffee, Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, March 19, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...flowers, all red and white, the colors of the Austrian flag. This was, of course, the new Austrian flag, one purist noted, the Hapsburgs standard being yellow and black. THE SOUNDS: The Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra flew over for the evening with vocalists and...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: hapsburgs

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Thirty Years War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Roman Empire as represented by the Hapsburgs , allied with the Catholic princes, and against the Hapsburgs themselves. The war began with the resistance...a subsidy to aid the opponents of the Hapsburgs, and England sent a few thousand soldiers...
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Margaret Maultasch

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in 1335, Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV gave Carinthia to the Hapsburgs and tried to take Tyrol from Margaret and her husband, John...their son Meinhard, she abdicated (1363), leaving Tyrol to the Hapsburgs. Legend has painted her as a woman of great power and evil...
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Hapsburg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...these dominions marked the rise of the Hapsburgs to European significance. Held in common...Balkans than in purely German affairs. The Hapsburgs lost Alsace, Franche-Comte, Artois, and...caused by the extinction of the Spanish Hapsburgs at the death (1700) of King Charles...
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Mansfeld, Peter Ernst Von

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...t r ernst f n mans felt, 1580? 1626, military commander in the Thirty Years War . Illegitimate son of a governor for the Hapsburgs in Luxembourg, he rendered distinguished service in the imperial forces in the Netherlands and was legitimized; by 1607 he...
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Adolf of Nassau

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...king (1292 98). He owed his election to the ecclesiastical electors , who, fearing the growing power and ambition of the Hapsburgs , chose him rather than Albert of Austria (later King Albert I ), son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg. Seeking to strengthen his...

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