The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700: An Interpretation [Paperback]

The Habsburg monarchy dominated European history for nearly half a millennium. Until the publication...of this excellent book no one had really explained why....Evans' book, which won the Wolfson Literary Award for History in 1980, grapples expertly with the numerous problems which inhibited many an earlier scholar. --Times Literary Supplement

[A]s a compendium and reference book for the intellectual history of this period the volume...with its excellent bibliography and good appendices, can be regarded as a standard work. --Austrian History Yearbook