The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy

The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy
ISBN-10
0674036344
ISBN-13
9780674036345
Category
History
Pages
1048
Language
English
Published
2009-10
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Peter H. Wilson

Description

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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