General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780710205452
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Europe; Military - General; Europe - History; History - Military / War
First sentence: In 1642 John Goodwin, a pamphleteer, predicted that 'the heate and warmth and living influence' of the English House of Commons in their struggle with King Charles I 'shall pierce through many kingdoms greate and large, as France, Germany, Bohemia, Hungaria, Polonia, Denmarke, Sweden and many others'.