Download or read book History of the Thirty Years War in Germany Didactic Press Paperbacks written by Frederick Schiller and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the religious wars in Germany, to the peace of Munster, scarcely any thing great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All the events of this period, if they did not originate in, soon became mixed up with, the question of religion, and no state was either too great or too little to feel directly or indirectly more or less of its influence.Against the reformed doctrine and its adherents, the House of Austria directed, almost exclusively, the whole of its immense political power. In France, the Reformation had enkindled a civil war which, under four stormy reigns, shook the kingdom to its foundations, brought foreign armies into the heart of the country, and for half a century rendered it the scene of the most mournful disorders. It was the Reformation, too, that rendered the Spanish yoke intolerable to the Flemings, and awakened in them both the desire and the courage to throw off its fetters, while it also principally furnished them with the means of their emancipation. And as to England, all the evils with which Philip the Second threatened Elizabeth, were mainly intended in revenge for her having taken his Protestant subjects under her protection, and placing herself at the head of a religious party which it was his aim and endeavour to extirpate. In Germany, the schisms in the church produced also a lasting political schism, which made that country for more than a century the theatre of confusion, but at the same time threw up a firm barrier against political oppression. It was, too, the Reformation principally that first drew the northern powers, Denmark and Sweden, into the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, it on the other was indispensable to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another's existence, acquired through the Reformation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relations sprang up between citizen and citizen, and between rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange course of events, religious disputes were the means of cementing a closer union among the nations of Europe...
Download or read book A Short History of Germany Didactic Press Paperbacks written by Ernest Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, - the Thirty Years' War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years' War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend the study of the history of France as a guiding thread through the intricacies of general European history; but is this choice justifiable? The two great, omnipresent factors of the whole medi�val period are the Papacy and the Empire; the Empire was German from the ninth to the nineteenth century, - from the days of Charlemagne until the days of Francis II., - and the Empire interfered in the affairs of the Papacy and of Italy far more than did France. When we come to the period of the Reformation, surely Luther and his kind were more prominent than the. French reformers, and the Emperor Charles V. had more to do with the affairs of Europe than any of the French kings. In the Thirty Years' War, larger interests were at stake than in the Huguenot struggles, and the German Peace of Westphalia necessitated a recasting of the whole map of Europe. Louis XIV., it is true, gave the tone to the high society of his age, and French was almost universally spoken and written at the German courts; but this influence was neither very deep nor very beneficial. Nor can it be denied that the French Revolution produced great results for Europe. Yet its effects, as far as Germany was concerned, have been overrated; the liberation of the serfs would probably have been accomplished without it, while constitutional government, popular representation, and trial by jury had still to wait for half a century.
Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict. Covering all aspects of the war from a variety of contemporary perspectives, it brings together an exciting range of material from treaties to literature to eyewitness accounts.
Download or read book The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Frederic Schiller and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany, Vol. 2 of 2 The glorious victory of Gustavus Adolphus had effected a great change in the conduct of that monarch, and in the opinion which both his friends and his enemies entertained of him. He had confronted himself with the greatest general of the age, and by the force of his tactics and Swedish valour, conquered the Imperial troops, the best in Europe. From that instant he relied upon himself, and self-reliance has ever been the, parent of great actions. Had not Alexander's impetuosity triumphed upon the Granicus, never had that conqueror overturned the Persian empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of Germany 1740 1914 Didactic Press Paperbacks written by George Priest and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Empire of 1740 was established on Christmas Day 800 when the Pope placed the imperial crown on the head of Charlemagne in Rome. From that time until far down the Middle Ages the Empire stood forth as the great power in western Europe. Conjointly with the Papacy it was the acknowledged head of Christendom. But the Empire comprised many different racial elements which could not be coalesced. A political unit in name, the Empire was never one in spirit. In the centuries which followed Charlemagne various emperors tried to mold the imperial provinces into an organic whole - Otto the Great (936-973) succeeded in part - but all were ultimately defeated either by intrigues of powerful nobles or by divergence of material interests. Luther created a feeling of national unity by means of his Translation of the Bible (1534), as Germans realized in it the possession of a mother-tongue common to them all. But the religious differences of the Reformation ranged German states against each other in bitter partisanship, and the ravages of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the culmination of this hostility, added unparalleled want and misery to spiritual discord that could not be reconciled. The Treaty of Westphalia, which concluded the Thirty Years' War, left the states of Germany as disunited as they ever were. Provisions of this treaty were still regulating affairs of the German Empire in 1740...
Download or read book The History of the Thirty Years War written by Friedrich Schiller and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the material appears in English for the first time, including a variety of previously unpublished archival sources, all reproduced in their full original length.
Download or read book History of the Thirty Years War in Germany Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Blaquiere Blaquiere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Thirty Years War in Germany, Vol. 1 of 2 Ledge, that he has given but a very feeble copy of an original, which is written with all the fpirit and elegance of which the German, the m'oft vigorous and eloquent perhaps of all modern languages, is capable of attaining. The German idiom is fo dif ferent from our own, as not to admit of a literal tranflation and the warmth of the author's imagination fometimes indulges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany written by Frederic Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Thirty Years War in Germany Translated by Captain Blaquiere Etc written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Thirty Years War written by Tryntje Helfferich and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridgment of Tryntje Helfferich's acclaimed 2009 anthology The Thirty Years War features an expanded General Introduction and annotation designed to support student readings in swift-moving surveys of European and World history.
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Download or read book Gustavus Adolphus in Germany and Other Lectures on the Thirty Years War Classic Reprint written by Richard Chenevix Trench and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gustavus Adolphus in Germany and Other Lectures on the Thirty Years War Very much has been done to throw light on the history of the Thirty Years' War, since the time when Schiller published what is still the main source of information about it for the ordinary reader (1790 and whenever Mr. Motley addresses himself to this closing por tion of that immense task which he has undcr taken - and he has announced his intention of carrying on his work to the end of this War - he will find a vast amount of material collected and partially wrought uptohis hand. This, however, from all reports, is little to that which is still waiting its time in the archives of Vienna, of Berlin, of Dresden, of Prague, of Stockholm, and above all, of Simncas, not to speak of 'vveimar and Cassel and other of the smaller capitals of Gamay, Within the last few years new Lines of almost, all the chief actors in. The War have been published; as of Gustavus Adolphus, use of Swedish materials, unused, as he states, by preceding historians of Wallenstein, by Ranke (1869) of Tilly, by Klopp (1861) of Bernard of Saxe Weimar, by Rose (1829) of the Emperor Ferdinand the Second, by Hurter (1850 of Ferdinand the Third, by Koch of Amalia of Hesse Cassel, by Rommel (18 Gindely, well known for his researches in Bohemian history, has undertaken to tell the whole story of the War in good part from sources hitherto unexplored but has fallen into the mistake which few who have the first access to new materials escape; lingering so long over the Bohemian troubles that it is difficult to say to what length the book, if ever completed, may extend, the first volume bringing us but a little way beyond the Fenster sturz.' The part which Brandenburg played in the struggle was very small: but Prussia as it now is makes interesting the most inglorious periods of its past history and all which any can want to know of its dismal share in the business is excellently told us by J. G. Droysen, Gem'zz'c/zte a'. Premsz'sc/zen Palitz'k. In 1856 - 59; a large portion of Chemnitz's semi-official Swedish ac count of the War, which had hitherto remained in manuscript, was published at Stockholm, reaching from May 1641 to June 1646, this the more valuable as a great fire in Stockholm (1697) had destroyed many of the original documents.068. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Stephen J. Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet guides the reader through one of the most complex periods of European history, when religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of conflicts in central Europe known collectively as the Thirty Years War.
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Download or read book History of the Thirty Years War Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Anton Gindely and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Thirty Years War, Vol. 1 of 2 I shall, in the course of this year or the next, publish the evidence of both Angelini and Maximilian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
