Maria Theresa By K.a. Roider
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Maria Theresa by K.A. Roider The GREAT LIVES OBSERVED series combines the intimacy of autobiography, the immediacy of eyewitness observation, and the objectivity of modern scholarship. In MARIA THERESA, Karl A. Roider, Jr., presents Maria Theresa's own words, the views of her contemporaries, and analyses in retrospect by leading historians to create a three-fold perspective. In 1740, Maria Theresa became sovereign of the crownlands of the House of Habsburg-and the only woman to rule in the 650-year history of that dynasty. When she ascended the throne, as she wrote later, she was "without money, without credit, without an army, without experience, and finally without advice.' Yet despite these inauspicious beginnings, she became one of the most successful and best-loved monarchs of her age. In this volume, Maria Theresa herself, her contemporaries, and more recent historians chronicle the achievements of the empress-queen. Voltaire, Charles VII of Bavaria, Goethe, and Frederick the Great are among the notable figures of the eighteenth century who offer their varied, yet always admiring, opinions of Maria Theresa. Later historians, such as Hanns L. Mikoletzky, Eugen Guglia, and Friedrich Walter, conclude this book with their retrospective interpretations - pointing out once again the complex and fascinating array of qualities that characterized this "enlightened despot," this "moderate conservative," this "pragmatic reformer"-in short, this very remarkable woman.
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