01320cam a2200253 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200043000840200015001270350024001420400052001660430012002180500020002300820016002501000037002662450065003032600074003683000072004425040051005145200425005656500034009906510042010241566142320200421093816.0090316s2009    mauabf   b    001 0 eng    a  2009011266  a9780674036345 (hardcover : alk. paper)  a0674036344  a(OCoLC)ocn316233555  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdYDXCPdC#PdBWXdUPZdMOFdDLC  ae------00aD258b.W55 200900a940.2/42221 aWilson, Peter H.q(Peter Hamish)14aThe Thirty Years War :bEurope's tragedy /cPeter H. Wilson.  aCambridge, Mass. :bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,c2009.  axxii, 996 p., [16] p. of plates :bill. (some col.), maps ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  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. 0aThirty Years' War, 1618-1648. 0aEuropexHistory, Militaryy1492-1648.