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Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress
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by Jack Stovel
Castilleja School
Palo Alto, California
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r. 1740-1780
The Country Studies Program of the Library of Congress is a good place to start for Maria Theresa. Another brief essay is at the Kings College site. A third offers a brief biography. Wikipedia, with its links, will take you further, though the usual cautions apply. The Catholic Encyclopedia article gives a fairly thorough summary of her reforms and her style. Sunshine for Women is a feminist site that has a biography of Maria Theresa listing the many reforms attributed to her. There is a description of Maria Theresa by a contemporary woman, Luise Gottsched, on the Fordham site. There are also several sites about her currency, the Maria Theresa Thaler, and some about the material culture of her era, such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The latter will change as new exhibitions are mounted.
 www.country-studies.com/austria/the-the-reforms-of-maria-theresa-and-joseph-ii.html
www.kings.edu/womens_history/mariatheres.html
http://87.1911encyclopedia.org/m/ma/maria_theresa.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_of_Austria
www.newadvent.org/cathen/09662d.htm
www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/maria.html
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1749gottschen-mariatheresa.html
www.24carat.co.uk/mariatheresathaler.html
www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page1747.html
These sites will enable students to get a good idea of the issues she faced and how she dealt with them.
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