The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (The Norton History of Modern Europe)

by Richard S. Dunn

Paperback, 1979

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (1979), Edition: 2nd, 322 pages

Description

The individual volumes interlock to form a continuous narrative, but each volume also stands alone as a distinctive study of a major period of European history. Emphasis is placed on trends rather than isolated facts and on meaning and process in history. Where standard views are dated or inadequate, the authors do not hesitate to advance fresh interpretations. the result is history on a broad scale that measures up to the demands of current scholarship. The Volumes in the Norton History of Modern Europe are striking in the quality of their illustrations and maps. New Sources have been drawn upon for engravings and halftones from contemporary documents and works of art; unusually clear maps have been prepared by the cartographer Harold K. Faye.… (more)

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Variations on a theme. Whether or not you accept Huntington's thesis of the so-called "Clash of Civilizations," it behoves us to remember that before the Treaty of Westphalia established the nation-state (thus setting the stage for much of what we think of as modernity) that Europe had exhausted

itself waging insensate religious wars. A slim but grim overview of what it's like when you can't countenance your neighbor not being on your grid.

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