The composite monarchy of the Austrian Habsburgs — Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and a shifting constellation of crownlands ruled in personal union from Vienna, the great counterweight to France and the Ottomans.
Proclaimed the Austrian Empire in 1804 when Francis II answered Napoleon's imperial title; the same lands continued under the new name until 1867, then as Austria-Hungary to 1918.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Habsburg Monarchy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1526 · 1683 · 1749 · 1792.
The standard survey of the composite monarchy across its early-modern prime.
Revisionist single-volume history of how the Habsburg state actually worked.