![]() ![]() By the war’s end a recognizably more modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years' War condemned German Central Europe to two centuries of internal religious division. ![]() In a major reassessment, the 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. Historians typically portray the Thirty Years War as the last and goriest of Europe’s religious warsa final bonfire. It also offers a bracingly novel interpretation. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy is a history of prodigious erudition that manages to corral the byzantine complexity of the Thirty Years War into a coherent narrative. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. 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. Wilson Product Details PAPERBACK 30.00 26.95 27. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. The Thirty Years War Europe’s Tragedy Peter H. ![]() This book offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. paper) 0674036344Subject(s): Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 Europe - History, Military - 1492-1648DDC classification: 940.24 Summary: A deadly continental. ![]() A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. ![]()
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