The Thirty Years War : : Europe’s Tragedy / / Peter H. Wilson.

• VerfasserIn: Wilson, Peter H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1024 p.)

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 moder...

Table of Contents

• 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