Europe's Tragedy
by Peter H. Wilson
"A New History of the Thirty Years War"
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Europe's Tragedy Book Details
War:
Thirty Years' War
Perspective:
Researcher
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
941
Published Date:
2010
ISBN13:
9780141006147
Europe's Tragedy Book Description
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.