The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy / Peter H. Wilson.
By: Wilson, Peter H. (Peter Hamish)
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009Description: xxii, 996 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780674036345 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 | Europe -- History, Military -- 1492-1648DDC classification: 940.2/4 LOC classification: D258 | .W55 2009Summary: 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.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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