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Land without Borders: Ottoman Expansion in Habsburg Hungary under Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661-70) -- "It Is Safer under the Turks": Hungarians' Quest for Physical Survival and Religious Protection (1661-70) -- Upper Hungary and the Ottomans: Protestant Resistance, Hope for Ottoman Intervention, and the 1670 Revolt -- Ottoman Mobilization, Habsburg War Panic, and Mass Repression in Hungary (1670-72) -- The Making of a Powder Keg: Popular Resistance and Revolt (1670-72) -- Trans-Imperial Networks: Hungarian Exiles, Ottoman Power Brokers, and Popular Rebels (1670-72) -- The World Turned Upside Down: The 1672 Revolt, Habsburg Collapse, and the Ottomans -- The Aftermath: The Slide to War and the Fragmentation of Habsburg Power (1672-76). "During the seventeenth century Hungary's diverse population of peasants, townsmen, soldiers, and county nobles rose up against the violent imposition of the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburg military occupation, and exhorbitant war taxes. In The Habsburg Empire under Siege Georg Michels explores the little-known grassroots revolts that threatened the Habsburgs' hold over the Hungarian borderlands. Based on extensive research in Hungarian, Austrian, and Dutch archives, this revisionist study shifts attention away from high politics, diplomacy, and military confrontation to the popular revolts that took place during the two decades before the 1683 siege of Vienna. Michels reveals a complex environment in which Calvinist Hungarians, Lutheran Slovaks, Lutheran Germans, and Orthodox Ukrainians worked to defend their religion against brutal Habsburg Counter-Reformation campaigns. Challenging preconceived notions of European, Middle Eastern, and East European history, this book tells a dramatic story of Reformation and Counter-Reformation violence, covering proxy wars, guerrilla warfare, refugee flight, migration from Hungary into Ottoman territory, and largely unknown Christian-Muslim encounters. Offering a trans-imperial perspective that reassesses the complex relationship between Hungarians, Habsburgs, and Ottomans, The Habsburg Empire under Siege portrays the resistance of ordinary men and women and their hopes for liberation from Habsburg oppression, reclaiming their place in history."--
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