- Hardcover: 660 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; New edition edition (1 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520024087
- ISBN-13: 978-0520024083
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 345,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Goes beyond the traditional Vienna-centered narrative of the fortunes of the Habsburg family and gives us a history of the numerous people who lived under the scepter of this historical ruling house. . . . Will serve as a basic history and reference book for years to come."--"American Historical Review
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"An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen critical appreciation of the diverse cultures of the monarchy. Its greatest merit derives from the author's determination always to ask fundamental questions, his care to discriminate between surface phenomena and deeper causes, his skill in finding significant patterns in an apparently chaotic welter of events, his facility for perceptive and penetrating distinctions and generalizations. In short, he tried with considerable success to tell what "really" happened in history rather than simply what obviously happened."--"Canadian Historical Review"
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The permanent affiliation of the Habsburg dynasty, the ruling house in the German Alpine hereditary lands, with the lands of the Bohemian and Hungarain-Croatian crowns in 1526-1527 initiates the beginning of the history of these realms as an over-all political entity. Read the first page
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The permanent affiliation of the Habsburg dynasty, the ruling house in the German Alpine hereditary lands, with the lands of the Bohemian and Hungarain-Croatian crowns in 1526-1527 initiates the beginning of the history of these realms as an over-all political entity. Read the first page
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A history of the Habsburg Empire is full of interesting stuff, and Professor Kann is very knowledgeable on this subject of Austrian history. However he fails to hold this readers attention for long due to his grammer, and seems to go off in tangents. He seems to dig deep into some subjects while bearly scratching the surface on others. Dryness of the book fades away as he goes to the events leading to World War I. This book also gives insight for those wishing to understand Balken history. Overall a decent book but still leaves the reader unfullfiled and looking or another source. I guess I will have to wait for the "dummies" edition to come out!!!
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I enjoyed reading the book. It gave me a good feeling for continental diplomatic history, a subject many americans dont know having focussed on the american revolution. I found it to be scholastically refined. It can be considered a good source for the origins and causes of WWI (and consequently the current yugoslav question). Criticisms might include a Hegelian like grammatical structure, as well as a lack of introduction to terms; there is no front porch on this book. There are also a number of misprints.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent General History of the Habsburgs
10 Nov 2000
Format:Paperback
Robert Kann was a Viennese Professor of History who taught at several American universities during his career. He was a recognized authority in his field, and this volume is one of the very best general histories of the Habsburg Monarchy currently in print. However, it was written in Professor Kann's second language, English; so the reading is choppy at times. In addition, the subject matter is extremely complex; so if you are expecting a page-turner, this may not be for you. Overall, if you want to know about the last 400 years of the Habsburgs, there are few better sources.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
This book is mainly about the period after 1740.
18 July 1999
Format:Paperback
The title of the book is quite misleading. About 85 % of the book is on the period after 1740. About half of the book is about Franz-Josef's reign. The author's mainly cared about 'liberal' reform and concentrates on this throughout the entire book. I think that this is why he didn't give much space to the early Habsburgs, because they weren't envolved in liberal reform. The other main problem with the book is that it isn't clearly written. Someone who doesn't know the history of the times will have difficulties following the book. The format of the book is that it discusses the political, social, and cultural histories of each period. This book, which has a similar format to J. J. Freehan's German History 1770-1866, is certainly not on the same caliber.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A great cure for insomnia!
28 April 1999
Format:Paperback
A history of the Habsburg Empire is full of interesting stuff, and Professor Kann is very knowledgeable on this subject of Austrian history. However he fails to hold this readers attention for long due to his grammer, and seems to go off in tangents. He seems to dig deep into some subjects while bearly scratching the surface on others. Dryness of the book fades away as he goes to the events leading to World War I. This book also gives insight for those wishing to understand Balken history. Overall a decent book but still leaves the reader unfullfiled and looking or another source. I guess I will have to wait for the "dummies" edition to come out!!!
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