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The Fall of Eagles: The Death of the Great European Dynasties. 1848-1918
The Fall of Eagles The Death of the Great European Dynasties 18481918 Author:C. L. Sulzberger Europe, 1848, three imperial dynasties rule over territories stretching from Germany South to the Adriatic Sea and the east to the Bering Strait on the Pacific Coast The Houses of Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Romanov rule over lands more vast than the British Empire at its greatest extent. In their struggle for continental domination and for eter... more »nal guarantees for their rule by divine right, they nurture the weeds of reaction that are destined to choke European democracy and become part of the conflagration of 1914.« less