The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy

The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

xxii, 996 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

940.24 W746 2009

(OCoLC)316233555

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 reassessment, author 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.

Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 reassessment, author 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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