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Book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony  1600 1660

Download or read book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony 1600 1660 written by Sigfrid Henry Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony

Download or read book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony written by Sigfrid Heinrich Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony  1600 1660

Download or read book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony 1600 1660 written by Sigfrid H. Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thirty Years War  1618 1648

Download or read book The Thirty Years War 1618 1648 written by Sigfrid Henry Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The  Thirty Years War

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  • Author : Sigfrid Heinrich Steinberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Sigfrid Heinrich Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The   7FThirty Years War  and the Conflict for European Hegemony  1600 1660

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Book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony  1600 1668

Download or read book The Thirty Years War and the Conflict for European Hegemony 1600 1668 written by S. H. Steinberg and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Thirty Years War

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  • Author : Peter H. Wilson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-20
  • ISBN : 067424625X
  • Pages : 1038 pages

Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals—the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. 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. By war’s end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country’s greatest disaster. An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson’s masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict. For a map of Central Europe in 1618, referenced on page XVI, please visit this book’s page on the Harvard University Press website.

Book The Thirty Years  War 1618   1648

Download or read book The Thirty Years War 1618 1648 written by Richard Bonney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the horrors of the fighting and also the sufferings of the civilian population. The Thirty Years' War remains a conflict of key importance in the history of the development of warfare and the 'military revolution'.

Book War in European History  1494 1660

Download or read book War in European History 1494 1660 written by Jeremy Black and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces Europe's military revolution, beginning with the onset of modern warfare in the 15th century Italian Wars and ending with the restoration of the House of Stuart to the English throne. It provides a complete bibliography for this time.

Book European Warfare  1494 1660

Download or read book European Warfare 1494 1660 written by Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of 'modern warfare', provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. Huge developments in the logistics of war combined with exploration and expansion meant interaction with extra-European forms of military might. Jeremy Black looks at technological aspects of war as well social and political developments and effects during this key period of military history. This sharp and compact analysis contextualises European developments and as establishes the global significance of events in Europe.

Book The Reformation 500 Years Later

Download or read book The Reformation 500 Years Later written by Benjamin Wiker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 is the 500th year anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, the event marking the beginning of the Reformation—and the end of unified Christianity. For Catholics, it was an unjustified rebellion by the heterodox. For Protestants, it was the release of true and purified Christianity from centuries-old enslavement to corruption, idolatry, and error. So what is the truth about the Reformation? To mark the 500th anniversary, historian Benjamin Wiker gives us 12 Things You Need to Know About the Reformation, a straight-forward account of the world-changing event that rejects the common distortions of Catholic, Protestant, Marxist, Freudian, or secularist retellings.

Book The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia  1618

Download or read book The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia 1618 written by Geoff Mortimer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the revolt in Bohemia and the famous defenestration of Prague.

Book The Thirty Years  War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Thirty Years War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century written by Kevin Cramer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public?s obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history?the Thirty Years? War?resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and aftermath of the war. The core of this bitter argument was a clash between Protestant and Catholic historians over the cultural criteria determining authentic German identity and the territorial and political form of the future German nation. ø This groundbreaking study of modern Germany?s morbid fascination with the war explores the ideological uses of history writing, commemoration, and collective remembrance to show how the passionate argument over the ?meaning? of the Thirty Years? War shaped Germans' conception of their nation. The first book in the extensive literature on German history writing to examine how modern German historians reinterpreted a specific event to define national identity and legitimate political and ideological agendas, The Thirty Years? War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century is a bold intellectual history of the confluence of history writing, religion, culture, and politics in nineteenth-century Germany.

Book The Thirty Years War

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  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2009-03-15
  • ISBN : 1603842292
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard political documents, from the Apology of the Bohemian Estates for the Defenestration of Prague to the text of the Treaty of Westphalia, as well as from imperial edicts, trial records, letters, diary entries, and satirical broadsheets, all directly translated from the Early New High German, French, Swedish, and Latin. The volume contains some ten illustrations and one map . . . and on the whole is well organized and well presented with a judicious amount of footnotes and a slim For Further Reading section. A succinct introduction introduces the four sections, each with its own substantial introduction: (1) Outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618-1623), (2) The Intervention of Denmark and Sweden (1623-1635), and (3) The Long War (1635-1648). The concluding section (4) Two Wartime Lives (1618-1648), interestingly juxtaposes the journals of a wandering mercenary and a settled townsman. The first is the diary of Peter Hagendorf, kept between the years 1624 and 1649 and only rediscovered in 1993. Hagendorf experienced the war as a common mercenary from the Baltic to Italy, from France to Pomerania. His counterpart is Hans Heberle, a shoemaker from a small town in the territory of the free imperial city of Ulm whose Zeytregister chronicled happenings both in the neighborhood and further afield. The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes over the three decades of the war really help to give this collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human face. They are the stuff from which Grimmelshausen would craft his great novel of the war, The Adventuresome Simplicissimus (1668). Tryntje Helfferich is to be applauded for this consistently interesting and eminently useful volume. --Martin W. Walsh, University of Michigan, in Sixteenth Century Journal

Book The Thirty Years  War  1618 1648

Download or read book The Thirty Years War 1618 1648 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner is a work of historical significance. A vivid and riveting account of one of Europe's most catastrophic religious conflicts, the epic Catholic-Protestant battles that killed at least 40% of Germany's population. The work's literary style transforms it from a dry history to a dramatic and captivating story, beginning with an explanation of the beginnings of the conflict and how these disagreements spun out of control into what was perhaps Europe's most catastrophic war at the time. Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1902), an English historian specializing in seventeenth-century European history, wrote it. He also taught contemporary history at King's College London, where he earned the most recognition for his studies of the English Civil War period.

Book The Thirty Years  War

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  • Author : Geoffrey Parker
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-03-20
  • ISBN : 1134734050
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in all languages, up to 1996. Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.