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