The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) was a major conflict fought between the great powers of Europe, sparked by a dispute over the right of a woman – Maria Theresa – to succeed to the Austrian throne. #History #BattleOfFontenoy #FrederickTheGreat #HabsburgEmpire #MariaTheresa #MauriceDeSaxe #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25515-en/
How a Dispute Over One Queen's Throne Ignited a Global War

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) was a major conflict fought between the great powers of Europe, sparked by a dispute over the right of a woman – Maria Theresa – to succeed to the Austrian...

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Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

🔗Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24

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"The Empire and I"

As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.

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Our #TEI #edition #data is now available as a remedy of last week’s #GAMS outage after #hack of #UniGraz.

It took a while (git lfs and git filter-repo, repo cleanup and housekeeping), but only now anyone can access the whole bunch of #diplomacy sources of #HabsburgEmpire #OttomanEmpire relations:

Data dump of all TEI documents previously published on https://qhod.net is now at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7648909. Enjoy!

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Short #introduction #neuhier:

While we'll remain active on https://twitter.com/QhoD_IHB for reasons of reach, the QhoD project will occasionally toot here with news on our #TEI #digitaledition of sources of #EarlyModern #diplomatic exchange between the #OttomanEmpire and the #HabsburgEmpire.

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QhoD digitally edits documentary and material sources of Habsburg–Ottoman diplomatic encounters. A project of the @Ihb_oeaw at @oeaw Impr.: https://t.co/8nLZBrmnRF

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