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The Other’s new face: Austria, the Habsburg empire and Islam


Two great states and empires confronted each other across boundaries of imagination as well as arms between the 14th and 17th centuries in Europe. As conflict receded so the vision of the enemy changed. How did this happen, and what are the lessons for today, asks Paula Sutter Fichtner. 
8 - 02 - 2008

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