The Thirty Years' War

by Parker; Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780415128834
• ISBN10: 0415128838
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-02-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Gerhard Benecke, Richard Bonney, John H. Elliott, R.J.W. Evans, Christopher R. Friedrichs, Bodo Nischan, Geoffrey Parker, E." "Ladewig Petersen, Michael Roberts."

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Contributors	xi
Preface	xii
Acknowledgements	xvi
Conventions	xviii
Chronology	xix
Europe Between War and Peace, 1555--1618	1	(41)
The Habsburgs and Europe	2	(9)
Germany before the war	11	(11)
The Union, the League and the politics of Europe	22	(12)
Simon Adams
The gathering storm	34	(8)
The Indecisive War, 1618--1629	42	(32)
The war for Bohemia	43	(12)
Europe and the Palatine war	55	(9)
Simon Adams
Geoffrey Parker
The Danish intermezzo	64	(10)
E. Ladewig Petersen
The Habsburgs Victorious	74	(25)
The Imperial vision	75	(5)
R. J. W. Evans
The practice of absolutism I: 1621--1626	80	(5)
The practice of absolutism II: 1626--1629	85	(7)
Gerhard Benecke
Spain and the war	92	(7)
John H. Elliott
Total War	99	(39)
On the edge of the abyss	100	(8)
Bodo Nischan
1630--1632: The intervention of Sweden	108	(11)
1633--1635: Oxenstierna versus Wallenstein	119	(10)
France's 'war by diversion'	129	(9)
Richard J. Bonney
Countdown to Peace	138	(32)
The Swedish dilemma	140	(5)
Michael Roberts
1635-1642: The deadlock broken	145	(7)
1643-1647: The defeat of the Habsburgs	152	(8)
1647-1650: The making of peace	160	(10)
The War in Myth, Legend and History	170	(33)
The universal soldier	171	(15)
The war and German society	186	(6)
Christopher R. Friedrichs
The war and politics	192	(11)
Maps	203	(9)
Abbreviations	212	(1)
Notes	213	(35)
Bibliographical essay	248	(25)
Geoffrey Parker
Index of authors	273	(8)
General index	281