The book’s chapters offer a brief overview of the Habsburg dynasty, following the family’s rise from minor Swiss nobles to possessors of an empire that spanned much of Europe and the Americas.

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states.

In 1848, revolution spread ... were granted in Prussia and the major German states, and the Italian and Hungarian subjects of the multi-ethnic Habsburg empire appeared on the brink of independence.

By 1600 the Holy Roman Empire was firmly in the grip of the Habsburgs, ruling from the Hofburg palace within Vienna's city walls. The empire had the largest population in Europe; it was bigger ...

Like the Habsburg empire, it’s also civilised and benign. Unlike the USSR, it doesn’t prevent its citizens from leaving. Unlike the USSR, it doesn’t need to.

Professor May has written a rather general political, social and cultural history of the Dual Monarchy from the ... Austria-Hungary and Great Britain 1908-1914 and the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867 ...

It was 1918, at the end of a World War that transformed European nations and ended the old Habsburg Empire that had ruled most of Central Europe.