Westphalia
Subtitle: The Last Christian Peace
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 25, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781137333322
Description: The Peace of Westphalia, which brought to a close the Thirty Years War, is arguably the most important treaty signed before the twentieth century. It was a signal event of the early modern era, thoroughly of its time even as it prefigured the radical political developments of subsequent centuries. This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the treaty and its wider significance to appear in the English language. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the European situation leading up to the Congress of Westphalia, exploring its political and intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context. In doing so, it definitively fills a massive lacuna in the scholarly literature while offering fascinating insights into the long historical transition to modernity. -- Publisher description
Notes: Source title: Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace