The Thirty Years War : Europe's Tragedy / Peter H. Wilson.
Wilson, Peter H., author.
2019
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Title The Thirty Years War : Europe's Tragedy / Peter H. Wilson.
Author Wilson, Peter H., author.
ISBN 9780674246249
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674246249
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (1024 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674246249 doi
Call Number D258
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.2/4
Summary 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. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.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. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals-the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. 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.By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster.An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson's masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict.For a map of Central Europe in 1618, referenced on page XVI, please visit this book's page on the Harvard University Press website.
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps and Battle Plans
List of Tables
Note on Form
The Habsburg Family Tree 1500-1665
Map of Central Europe
Note on Currencies
Preface
Part one. Beginnings
1 Introduction
2 Trouble in the Heart of Christendom
3 Casa d'Austria
4 The Turkish War and its Consequences
5 Pax Hispanica
6 Dominium Maris Baltici
7 From Rudolf to Matthias 1582-1612
8 On the Brink?
Part two. Conflict
9 The Bohemian Revolt 1618-20
10 Ferdinand Triumphant 1621-4
11 Olivares and Richelieu
12 Denmark's War against the Emperor 1625-9
13 The Threat of European War 1628-30
14 The Lion of the North 1630-2
15 Without Gustavus 1633-4
16 For the Liberty of Germany 1635-6
17 Habsburg High Tide 1637-40
18 In the Balance 1641-3
19 Pressure to Negotiate 1644-5
20 War or Peace 1646-8
Part three. Aftermath
21 The Westphalian Settlement
22 The Human and Material Cost
23 Experiencing War
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Pictures

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