From the Book - First edition.
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
Vampirism, Englightenment, and the Revolution from above
Archducesses and 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
The politics of discontent and the 1908 Jubilee
Explores, Jews, and the world's knowledge
The hunter and the hunted: Franz Ferdinand and Bosnia
World War and Dissolution.
