Crimes of the house of Austria against mankind : $b Proved by extracts from the histories of Coxe, Schiller, Robertson, Grattan, and Sismondi, with Mrs. M.L. Putnam's history of the constitution of Hungary, and its relations with Austria, published in May, 1850

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Granada in Flammen by Ludwig Huna is a historical polemic written in the mid-19th century. It assembles and interprets extracts from established historians to accuse the House of Habsburg of systematic assaults on constitutional rights and national liberties across Central Europe, with special attention to Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Hungary. Framed as a documented indictment rather than a seamless narrative, the work aims to arm readers—especially a republican audience—with evidence against dynastic “legitimacy.” The opening of the work explains its activist purpose and method, then contrasts Rodolph of Habsburg’s pious professions to the papacy with a career marked by opportunism, force, and fiscal exactions. It sketches his rise—from local raids and sieges to election as King of the Romans brokered through clerical favor and marital bargains—followed by his defeat of Ottokar of Bohemia, the installation of his own line in Austria, and money-raising through taxes and paid confirmations of civic privileges. It then turns to Albert’s harsher rule, including the abrogation of Vienna’s charters and heavy-handed moves in Bohemia, and to repeated efforts by Habsburg princes to encircle and subdue the Swiss. The narrative highlights how Swiss confederate resistance and battlefield upsets at mountain passes and lakeside plains (notably Morgarten, Sempach, and Naefels) blunted Habsburg power, while elsewhere dynastic grabs, papal deals, and internecine partitions spread lawlessness and eroded freedoms—setting the pattern the book promises to document throughout. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Subjects

• Habsburg, House of
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