The Thirty Years War
Author | : Peter H. Wilson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2009-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674036344 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674036345 |
Rating | : 4/5 (345 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Thirty Years War by : Peter H. Wilson
Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.