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100 1 _aWilson, Peter H.
_q(Peter Hamish)
245 1 4 _aThe Thirty Years War :
_bEurope's tragedy /
_cPeter H. Wilson.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2009.
300 _axxii, 996 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.), maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aA 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.
650 0 _aThirty Years' War, 1618-1648.
651 0 _aEurope
_xHistory, Military
_y1492-1648.
999 _c14884
_d14884