BOOK

Maria Theresa, Empress : the making of the Austrian Enlightenment

Bassett, Richard (Historian), author

2025

نظرة عامة

Empress Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. Over the next forty years, she became a fierce leader and opponent, as well as a devoted wife and mother to sixteen children. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion. Yet Maria Theresa's modernisation policies were not entirely progressive. Antisemitism and an enduring suspicion of Protestantism greatly affected the lives of her subjects.

• الناشر: Yale University Press
• موضوع: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780. / Biography. / Austria Kings and rulers Biography. / Austria History Maria Theresa, 1740-1780.
• ISBN: 9780300243987

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اتصل بالرقم	نسخ	مواد	موقع
DB71 .B37 2025	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT