The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy
(2009)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.24/WILSON,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 996 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674036345 (alk. paper), 0674036344 (alk. paper), 0674036344
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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