The Thirty Years War
| Titel: | The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy / Peter H. Wilson |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2009 |
| Umfang: | XXII, 996 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780674036345 ; 0674036344 |
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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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| Rezension/en: | --Oou--Asch, Ronald G. |
