The Thirty Years War - Softcover

Parker, G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415025346 ISBN 13: 9780415025348

Publisher: Routledge, 1988

The Thirty Years War is the key issue of early modern history, the core of the 'general crisis' of the seventeenth century. In this book Parker brings together a team of leading scholars to cover the massive body of source material.

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About the Author:

Geoffrey Parker is Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.

Review:

..."with this book as our guide, we are now in a position to understand more fully the long 'European Civil War' which did much to shape the course of the history of the continent as a whole."
-"History Today
"This new book...is most welcome: thorough, scholarly, up-to-date, it makes the murky period as clear as anything ever will...It is a swift-moving general account that misses no essentials, while not allowing itself to get bogged down in details."
-"Wilson Library Bulletin
"The book successfully provides a clear and balanced...explanation of what happened between 1618 and 1648...this is political history in the classic mold."
-"The Sixteenth Century Journal
"The best book we have on the Thirty Years' War."
-"History Teaching Review
"A judicious, lively, enlightening and, above all, highly serviceable work for which scholars, students and the general public will be grateful."
-"Times Literary Supplement

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