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Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.
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Matusiak, John (Historian).
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.
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Europe in flames : the crisis of the Thirty Years War /
John
Matusiak
.
by
Matusiak
,
John
(
Historian
).
The History Press, 2018.
Call #:
940.24 M445e
Subjects
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.
ISBN:
9780750985512 (hc.)
Description:
320 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes index.
Contents:
1. The crucible -- 2. Crisis of Emperors -- 3. 'The start of our destruction' -- 4. 'Fatal conflagration' -- 5. Crisis of empires -- 6. 'Soldier under Saturn' -- 7. Crisis of a continent -- 8. 'Lion of the North' -- 9. Magdeburg and Breitenfeld -- 10. The plenitude of power -- 11. War without limit, war without end -- 12. The crisis of the peace.
Summary:
"Early seventeenth-century Europe was a dangerous place. The resulting Thirty Years' War was to claim more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World wars - not only from battle and the endemic violence of marauding armies, but also from famine and plague. In the wake of events in far-off Bohemia in 1618, there ensued a bitter struggle encompassing the entire political and religious futures of Europe, and involving in one way or another all of the major players of the Continent - from the Habsburg monarchs of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, to the Bourbon rulers of France, and the renowned King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, as well as Denmark, England and,more crucially still, the emerging Dutch Republic of the United Provinces. As the turmoil unfolded, vast mercenary armies exacted an incalculable toll upon helpless civilian populations, while their commanders and the men who equipped them frequently grew rich on the profits, leaving the rulers - to whom they sometimes bore no more than nominal allegiance - perched on the brink of catastrophe. When peace came, in 1648, the crisis appeared to have passed, but the underlying causes were far from wholly resolved. On the contrary, in some cases they were merely suspended or fashioned anew."--Book jacket.
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