The Habsburgs
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What’s it about?
For six centuries, the Habsburgs ruled a vast, incoherent empire not by conquest but by marriage, compromise, and sheer survival—shaping Europe through their improbable genius for holding chaos together.
You’ll learn
- How marriage built an empire
- Why the Habsburgs mastered compromise
- The tragedy of Charles V's universal dream
- How nationalism finally undid them