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By M.S. Anderson

Set in movement by way of the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this sequence of significant conflicts (1740-48) concerned excess of simply the destiny of the Habsurgs: quickly, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the Netherlands have been embroiled of their diverse yet interlocking energy struggles, with profound long term importance for Europe and past. The struggle marks the increase of Prussia to great-power prestige, and the hole of the fight among France and Britain for maritime supremacy and colonial empire in North the US, the Caribbean and India. This publication examines the conflict and its effects of their widest context.

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