The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy / Peter H. Wilson.
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
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| Summary: | A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict--a conflict that ultimately transformed the map of the modern world. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 996 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674036345 (alk. paper) 0674036344 (alk. paper) |