Maria TheresaA&C Black, 28 сент. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 380 When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years. Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront her, and trusting in the honour of her fellow monarchs, the young queen found herself with a virtually nonexistent army at the head of a bankrupt and disaffected empire - an empire shortly to be set upon by half Europe intent on shattering the Habsburg power for ever. Married to an amiable but ineffectual husband whom she adored, surrounded by shortsighted advisers senile to the point of decrepitude, her only weapons were her charm, her unbreakable will, and her almost reckless courage. With these, and by her own immense exertions, she first held her powerful enemies at bay; then, choosing new advisers with astonishing skill, and discovering in herself a fund of commonsense amounting almost to genius, she instituted wide-reaching reforms which were to unify the Empire's bewildering mixture of lands and peoples, and bring it to the threshold of the revolutionary age. With all this she remained a wife and a mother - most touchingly so in her vast correspondence with her many children. |
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The Clouds Gather Round | |
Rape of Silesia | |
The Queen Commands | |
The War of the Succession | |
Personal Interlude | |
Music and the Individual Voice | |
The Reins of Government | |
Unification and Reform | |
Prince Kaunitz | |
The Loss of Innocence | |
The Seven Years | |
The Queen Mother | |
The King of the Romans | |
The Queens Conscience | |
Reflections of the | |
Imperial Splendour | |
The Court at Vienna | |
Glimpses of the Other Half | |
The Great Change | |
The Betrayal of an Idea | |
Reaction and Enlightenment | |
The Burden of the Years | |
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