Titre :	The Habsburgs
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	McGuigan, Dorothy Gies, Auteur
Editeur :	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc
Année de publication :	©1966.
Importance :	xiv, 462 p.
Présentation :	ill. and photos
Format :	24 cm
Note générale :	Includes index
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Germany -- History -- Hapsburg House. Habsburg, House of.
Mots-clés :	Habsburg
Résumé :	Personal lives of a royal family that made history for six centuries
Note de contenu :	I. Habsburg ancestor -- II. Habsburgs in the marriage market: Maximilian I -- The wedding in Burgundy -- The dowry -- Troubles and glory -- Brides lost and won -- Kaiser Max: His image -- The Spanish marriage: Philip the handsome and Juana the mad -- The children of Malines -- Durer's last portrait -- III. The one world of Charles V -- Heir to the world -- Family matters -- A momentous election -- The seamless coat -- Years of triumph -- The padlocked heart -- The seamless coat torn -- Brothers' quarrel -- Exile -- IV. Austrian and Spanish cousins -- Ferdinand's family -- The Turkish Scimitar -- heresy in the family circle -- Archduke Ferdinand and Philippina Welser -- Young Maximilian gives in -- Last days of Ferdinand -- A Spanish education -- Maximilian II, a Via Media -- A question of breeding -- The court of Rudolf II -- Matthias: Monarch of the Seven M's -- V. Habsburgs at bay: Protestant and Turk -- Ferdinand II -- A wartime bride -- Leopold I: An unwilling emperor -- The great siege of Vienna -- VI. In a Baroque world -- VII. Problems of inheritance -- A new king for Spain -- Problems and pleasure of Charles VI -- VIII. The great empress -- A new queen -- The Landesmutter -- Maria Theresia's chastity commission -- Absolutism in the nursery -- Last letter to the queen of France -- IX. Joseph II: The poor man's emperor -- Tastes of a simple man -- Changing the world -- Making of a throne heir -- Epitaph for Joseph -- X. Wars and waltzes: Napoleonic times -- The short reign of Leopold II -- Franz II vs. Napoleon -- Domestic life in wartime -- Family reunion -- XI. Kings on holiday: The dancing congress -- Opening of the congress -- Hofburg house party -- Disagreements and duels -- End of the dance -- XII. Mr. Biedermeier and his times -- Franz the Good, Ferdinand the good-natured -- Biedermeier romances -- Revolution and abdication -- XIII. Franz Josef: A long reign begins -- Young Franz Josef -- Empress Elizabeth -- Learning to rule -- Kaiserstadt -- Maximilian in Mexico -- Family life in the seventies -- XIV. The tragedy at Mayerlling -- A new throne heir: Rudolf -- Mary Vetsera -- Conspiracy of silence -- XV. Hofburg finale -- Elizabeth in mourning -- A friend for Franz Josef -- Uncle and nephew -- Turn-of-the-century Vienna -- Twilight -- Sarajevo -- Death of an emperor -- XVI. Curtain fall for the Habsburgs.

The Habsburgs [texte imprimé] / McGuigan, Dorothy Gies, Auteur . - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc, ©1966. . - xiv, 462 p. : ill. and photos ; 24 cm.
Includes index
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Germany -- History -- Hapsburg House. Habsburg, House of.
Mots-clés :	Habsburg
Résumé :	Personal lives of a royal family that made history for six centuries
Note de contenu :	I. Habsburg ancestor -- II. Habsburgs in the marriage market: Maximilian I -- The wedding in Burgundy -- The dowry -- Troubles and glory -- Brides lost and won -- Kaiser Max: His image -- The Spanish marriage: Philip the handsome and Juana the mad -- The children of Malines -- Durer's last portrait -- III. The one world of Charles V -- Heir to the world -- Family matters -- A momentous election -- The seamless coat -- Years of triumph -- The padlocked heart -- The seamless coat torn -- Brothers' quarrel -- Exile -- IV. Austrian and Spanish cousins -- Ferdinand's family -- The Turkish Scimitar -- heresy in the family circle -- Archduke Ferdinand and Philippina Welser -- Young Maximilian gives in -- Last days of Ferdinand -- A Spanish education -- Maximilian II, a Via Media -- A question of breeding -- The court of Rudolf II -- Matthias: Monarch of the Seven M's -- V. Habsburgs at bay: Protestant and Turk -- Ferdinand II -- A wartime bride -- Leopold I: An unwilling emperor -- The great siege of Vienna -- VI. In a Baroque world -- VII. Problems of inheritance -- A new king for Spain -- Problems and pleasure of Charles VI -- VIII. The great empress -- A new queen -- The Landesmutter -- Maria Theresia's chastity commission -- Absolutism in the nursery -- Last letter to the queen of France -- IX. Joseph II: The poor man's emperor -- Tastes of a simple man -- Changing the world -- Making of a throne heir -- Epitaph for Joseph -- X. Wars and waltzes: Napoleonic times -- The short reign of Leopold II -- Franz II vs. Napoleon -- Domestic life in wartime -- Family reunion -- XI. Kings on holiday: The dancing congress -- Opening of the congress -- Hofburg house party -- Disagreements and duels -- End of the dance -- XII. Mr. Biedermeier and his times -- Franz the Good, Ferdinand the good-natured -- Biedermeier romances -- Revolution and abdication -- XIII. Franz Josef: A long reign begins -- Young Franz Josef -- Empress Elizabeth -- Learning to rule -- Kaiserstadt -- Maximilian in Mexico -- Family life in the seventies -- XIV. The tragedy at Mayerlling -- A new throne heir: Rudolf -- Mary Vetsera -- Conspiracy of silence -- XV. Hofburg finale -- Elizabeth in mourning -- A friend for Franz Josef -- Uncle and nephew -- Turn-of-the-century Vienna -- Twilight -- Sarajevo -- Death of an emperor -- XVI. Curtain fall for the Habsburgs.