{"id":32535,"date":"2022-09-06T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=32535"},"modified":"2022-09-06T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T09:40:01","slug":"martyn-rady-the-habsburgs-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-world-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=32535","title":{"rendered":"Martyn Rady, &#8220;The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In <em>The Habsburgs<\/em>, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built &#8211; and then lost &#8211; over nearly a millennium.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<br><br>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&#8217;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 &#8211; from warlords to contemplatives, from clever to stupid, from idle to frenzied &#8211; 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.<br><br><em>The Habsburgs<\/em> is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that, for better or worse, shaped Europe and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read<\/strong> &#8230; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Alan Sked, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riveting &#8230; <strong>It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Paul Lay, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>The Habsburgs<\/em>, Martyn Rady has produced <strong>a Rolls-Royce of a narrative<\/strong> <strong>that motors through ten centuries of history<\/strong> with an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet &#8230; The vast cast of characters is depicted with a mix of insight, sympathy and astringent Gibbonian wit that makes them instantly memorable &#8230; [Rady&#8217;s]book<strong> sheds light on the present almost as brightly as it illuminates the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>John Adamson, Literary Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Magnificent<\/strong> &#8230; Rady maintains unerring poise as he steers through the depths and complexities of his material. <strong>His erudition seems effortless, he never gets bogged down in detail, his prose is pellucid<\/strong>, and he spices the narrative with delightfully dry asides and telling anecdotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rady restores the Habsburgs to the heart of European history &#8230; An <strong>enjoyable, clever and colourful<\/strong> introduction to the subject, with plenty of memorable details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Habsburgs are a writer&#8217;s gift, offering a regal cast of mad, colourful and deeply flawed characters &#8230; <strong>Rady&#8217;s sparkling study is certainly a good place to start.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mark Mazower, Financial Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This volume takes it all in. That Mr. Rady can, in under 350 pages, cover everything from the division of the family&#8217;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&#8217;s attention, is <strong>a feat of both scholarship and storytelling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wess Mitchell, Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <strong>ambitious, wide-ranging, briskly written narrative<\/strong> that crams a vast amount of often surprising information into twenty-nine dense but very readable chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ritchie Robertson, Times Literary Supplement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lucid and entertaining<\/strong> &#8230; Rady is as good on the Habsburgs&#8217; artistic and cultural legacy as he is on the politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>David Crane, The Spectator<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This panoramic account manages to make more sense of the European dynasty than its rulers often did.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>John Gallagher, The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Martyn Rady<\/strong> 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. Rady&#8217;s last book, <em>The Habsburgs<\/em>, was described in the <em>Times Literary Supplement <\/em>as &#8216;probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/308089\/the-habsburgs-by-rady-martyn\/9780141987200\">https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/308089\/the-habsburgs-by-rady-martyn\/9780141987200<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Rady.jpg?fit=326%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52969,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52969","url_meta":{"origin":32535,"position":0},"title":"Martyn Rady, &#8220;Sredi\u0161nja kraljevstva. 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