@article{340919, author = {Wilson, Peter H.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/340919}, title = {The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy /}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {340919}, pages = {xxii, 996 p., [16] p. of plates :}, address = {Cambridge, Mass. :}, year = {2009}, }