TY - BOOK N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - The Thirty Years War :Europe's tragedy / DA - 2009. CY - Cambridge, Mass. : AU - Wilson, Peter H. CN - D258 CN - D258 PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2009. ID - 340919 KW - Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. SN - 9780674036345 (alk. paper) SN - 0674036344 (alk. paper) TI - The Thirty Years War :Europe's tragedy / ER -