Westphalia [electronic resource] : The Last Christian Peace /
Croxton, D.author.
This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction -- The Thirty Years' War -- Origins of the Congress of Westphalia -- Governments and Goals -- Structures -- Part II. Negotiations -- The Long Beginning -- Foreign Satisfaction -- German Issues -- Part III. Conclusion -- Consequences -- Foundations -- Innovations.
This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Religion—History.
Civilization—History.
Social history.
Military history.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Religion.
Cultural History.
Social History.
History of Military.