Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power (eBook)

War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State

James Tracy (Autor)

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2025
290 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-270-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From 1526 to 1606, the Habsburg Ottoman contest for control of Hungary dominated the external affairs of central Europe. This was not simply a religious war in Germany, Catholics and Protestants were at times fighting each other. But in the period covered here (1540 1580) no European state could withstand the sultan s armies. Austria s Protestant nobles commanded the forces of their Catholic sovereigns. and in the Holy Roman Empire, after 1555, Protestant and Catholic estates joined against a common threat. Historian James Tracy explores the relative strengths of forces, Habsburg military strategies, and the futility of negotiating from a position of weakness. As composite states, the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire are not thought to have functioned well, yet both showed a surprising resilience.

Autor

James Tracy was Professor of History at the University of Minnesota from 1966 to 2009. He was also editor of the Journal of Early Modern History (1997 – 2010), and has taught at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, the Sorbonne, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His recent publications include: Balkan Wars: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499 – 1617 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance and Politics in Holland, 1572 – 1588 (Oxford University Press, 2008); and Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: History: Medieval/Early Modern • Peace and Conflict Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-83695-270-8 / 1836952708
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83695-270-1 / 9781836952701