Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in reestablishing Habsburg sovereignty within his crown lands. The foundation laid by Ferdinand at this particularly crucial time in European history contributed significantly to the reemergence of the Habsburgs as political and cultural leaders under such later rulers as Leopold I, Charles VI, and Maria Theresa. The underlying premise of this book is that Ferdinand III accomplished this not through diplomacy or...