ISBN1541644506 (hardcover)
9781541644502 (hardcover)
数量xvii, 397 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : ; 25 cm.
一般注記Introduction: An emperor's library -- Castle Habsburg and the 'Fortinbras effect' -- The Holy Roman Empire and the golden king -- Losing place and forging a past -- Frederick III: Saturn and Mars -- Maximilian and the colour-coded kings -- Charles V: Ruler of the world -- Hungary, Bohemia, and the Protestant challenge -- Philip II: The new world, religious dissent, and royal incest -- Don John and the galleys of Lepanto -- Rudolf II and the alchemists of Prague -- The triumph of the heretics -- Ferdinand II, the holy house, and Bohemia -- The thirty years 'world war' -- The abnormal empire and the battle for Vienna -- Spain's invisible sovereigns and the death of the bewitched king -- The theatre of the Baroque -- Maria Theresa, automata, and bureaucrats -- Merchants, botanists, and Freemasons -- Vampirism, enlightenment, and the revolution from above -- Archduchesses and the Habsburg low countries -- Censors, Jacobins, and The Magic Flute -- Metternich and the map of Europe -- 1848: Von Neumann's diary and Radetzky's march -- Franz Joseph's empire, Sisi, and Hungary -- Maximilian, Mexico, and royal deaths -- The politics of discontent and the 1908 jubilee -- Explorers, Jews, and the world's knowledge -- The hunter and the hunted: Franz Ferdinand and Bosnia -- World war and dissolution -- Conclusion.