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Laddar... Maria Theresa (1969)av Edward Crankshaw
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. 1159 Maria Theresa, by Edward Crankshaw (read 30 Apr 1972) I found this a most satisfying book, even though it is footnoteless and not a work of original scholarship. As an overview of an era I wanted to know more about it is excellent. It has whetted my interest in the 18th century. Maria Theresa was the daughter of Charles VI, who became emperor in 1711. She was born in 1717. She was married to Francis Stephen of Lorraine when she was 19, and she had 15 children, 12 of whom lived. She succeeded her father as ruler of Austria in 1740. The War of Austrian Succession ran from 1741 to 1748, when the Peace of Aix-la-Chappelle was signed, and the loss of Silesia to Prussia was confirmed. The Seven Years War ran from 1756 to 1763, and also ended badly for Maria Theresa because of Empress Elizabeth of Russia's death. Maria Theresa's husband died in 1765, and their eldest son Joseph II became emperor. This book is pro-Maria and very anti-Joseph, which to my pro-Catholic soul is just right. Maria died Nov. 29, 1780. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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When Edward Crankshaw'sMaria Theresawas 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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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