Danubia : a personal history of Habsburg Europe
Winder, Simon2014
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For centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off a number of rivals until finally packing up in 1918. Simon Winder's account of the rule of the Habsburgs plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages - and even a guinea-pig village.
Main title:
Danubia : a personal history of Habsburg Europe / Simon Winder.
Author:
Winder, Simon, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2014.London : Picador, 2014.
Collation:
550 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2013.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780330522793 (pbk)0330522795
Dewey class:
940.2940
Local class:
940.2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
516592