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The Habsburgs de Martyn Rady

The Habsburgs

Autor Martyn Rady
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2022

Putem afirma că The Habsburgs reprezintă o sinteză monumentală, structurată cronologic pe parcursul a 416 pagini, care reușește să transforme o istorie fragmentată într-o narațiune coerentă despre putere și destin. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Martyn Rady integrează nu doar datele politice, ci și moștenirea culturală și arhitecturală a familiei care a dominat Europa timp de aproape un mileniu. Volumul oferă o perspectivă globală, urmărind expansiunea teritorială din secolul al XV-lea, când stăpânirile Habsburgilor s-au întins din Ungaria până în Spania și din Lumea Nouă până în Filipine. Reținem că abordarea autorului se concentrează pe identitatea de familie, explicând cum o masă aparent dezorganizată de teritorii și limbi a fost menținută unită de credința într-o misiune providențială. Ca și The Habsburg Empire, lucrarea anterioară a lui Martyn Rady din seria „Very Short Introductions”, acest titlu acoperă întreaga istorie a dinastiei, dar cu o metodologie mult mai detaliată, oferind spațiu pentru portrete complexe ale împăraților — de la cei sclipitori la cei inerți. Dacă A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700 de Jean Berenger se oprește la perioada modernă timpurie, The Habsburgs merge până la catastrofa Primului Război Mondial, oferind o viziune completă asupra declinului. În contextul operei sale, această carte reprezintă punctul culminant al cercetărilor lui Rady asupra Europei Centrale, temă explorată și în The Middle Kingdoms. Stilul este accesibil, dar riguros, evitând capcanele unei cronici aride în favoarea unei analize despre cum o singură familie a reușit să modeleze lumea modernă, lăsând în urmă instituții și opere de artă care persistă și astăzi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141987200
ISBN-10: 0141987200
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie europeană care caută o perspectivă de ansamblu asupra celei mai influente dinastii continentale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care s-au format granițele și identitățile Europei Centrale. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția de la imperiile multinaționale la statele moderne, scrisă într-un stil captivant ce îmbină biografia politică cu istoria culturală.

Despre autor

Martyn Rady este un istoric britanic de renume, specialist în istoria Europei Centrale și profesor emerit la University College London. Expertiza sa vastă se reflectă în lucrări precum The Middle Kingdoms și In the Shadow of Hitler, unde analizează dinamica politică și personalitățile care au marcat estul continentului. Prin The Habsburgs, Rady își consolidează poziția de autoritate în studiul dinastiei habsburgice, fiind apreciat pentru capacitatea de a face istoria academică accesibilă publicului larg fără a sacrifica rigoarea științifică.

Notă biografică

Martyn Rady is Masaryk Professor of Central European History at University College London. He has written several major works on the history of Hungary, from the medieval period to the twentieth century, but has also written on topics as diverse as the Hussites, vampirism and the Emperor Charles V. He has honorary doctorates from the Károli University in Budapest and the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in Romania.

Recenzii

This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... a brilliant achievement. Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history. No one will ever again know as much about the subject as Rady.
Riveting ... It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady has produced a Rolls-Royce of a narrative that motors through ten centuries of history with an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet ... The vast cast of characters is depicted with a mix of insight, sympathy and astringent Gibbonian wit that makes them instantly memorable ... [Rady's] book sheds light on the present almost as brightly as it illuminates the past.
Magnificent ... Rady maintains unerring poise as he steers through the depths and complexities of his material. His erudition seems effortless, he never gets bogged down in detail, his prose is pellucid, and he spices the narrative with delightfully dry asides and telling anecdotes.
Rady restores the Habsburgs to the heart of European history ... An enjoyable, clever and colourful introduction to the subject, with plenty of memorable details.
The Habsburgs are a writer's gift, offering a regal cast of mad, colourful and deeply flawed characters ... Rady's sparkling study is certainly a good place to start.
This volume takes it all in. That Mr. Rady can, in under 350 pages, cover everything from the division of the family's lands in the Swiss Argau in 990 to the surrender of power in 1918 by Charles, the last Habsburg monarch, without sacrificing essential details or losing the reader's attention, is a feat of both scholarship and storytelling.
An ambitious, wide-ranging, briskly written narrative that crams a vast amount of often surprising information into twenty-nine dense but very readable chapters.
Lucid and entertaining ... Rady is as good on the Habsburgs' artistic and cultural legacy as he is on the politics.
This panoramic account manages to make more sense of the European dynasty than its rulers often did.
The Habsburgs is gripping, colorful, and dramatic but also concise, scholarly, and magisterial ... Revealing a key player in world history for almost a thousand years, The Habsburgs is a chronicle of high politics and family intimacy involving religion, murder, incest, madness, suicide, assassination. History on an epic scale!
It's staggering how much of the continent we recognise today is the result of the machinations of one family, much of it inbred and with really weird chins, and Rady manages to condense the story into one pacy and highly readable account of generations of chancers, liars, political masterminds, battlefield heroes and ruthless schemers who shaped Europe for centuries.
The Habsburgs were once Europe's foremost royal family. Rady tells their story with verve and authority, casting a curious eye over their eccentricities and peccadilloes while all the time revealing their extraordinary influence and global vision. A fascinating read!
A tour de force. Thorough, accessible, and resolutely erudite, this is the volume that this vitally important subject so desperately needed. Martyn Rady should be congratulated.
Martyn Rady has written a splendid account of the grandest old dynasty of Europe: the Habsburgs. With wit and firm opinion, he takes the reader on something akin to a tour of the Wunderkammer of the dynasty's many-centuries-long career. Including vampires, an empress's waist size, and cocaine-laced health drinks, Rady's narrative glitters with apt quotes and telling, often ironic details.
This profile of the Habsburgs is concerned as much with the personal as it is the political. It is a tale of survival, from modest origins to control of an empire and, finally, twentieth-century catastrophe.
This is a first global history of Europe's most famous and durable dynasty, chronicling its exploits with great panache over nearly a millennium of rule across wide swathes of the continent and beyond. His text is accessible and entertaining, his ready wit providing a delectable counterpoint to the notorious humourlessness of so many of the dynasts he examines.

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'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary Supplement

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 grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain, and from the Far East to the New World. The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War.

With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. But here Martyn Rady shows the reasons for the family's incredible endurance, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace and patrons of learning. The Habsburg emperors were themselves absurdly varied in their characters - from warlords to contemplatives, from clever to stupid, from idle to frenzied - but all driven by the same sense of family mission. Scattered around the world, countless buildings, institutions and works of art continue to bear witness to their overwhelming impact.

The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that, for better or worse, shaped Europe and the world.