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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Jul 13, 2010 - The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy by Peter H. Aug 13, 2013 - What Pinker also fails to tell his readers is that the Thirty Years' War was a statistical outlier: no other religious atrocity in Europe was responsible for anything like that proportion of deaths, and the only religious atrocity which surpassed it .. Sep 27, 2011 - It is a splendid piece by the historian, Paul Kennedy, a rave review of Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years' War by Peter H. Danube River Cruise Marienburg. Wilson Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press 1,040 pp., $35.00. Apr 13, 2007 - Was Kieft's War a tragedy? May 30, 2010 - 1631 - The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Kingdom of France, establishing a secret alliance between them during the Thirty Years' War. According to the detailed treatment given in Europe's Tragedy by Peter H Wilson death records from towns appear to show few directly related to military violence and 30 years of warfare reaped around 450,000 military casualties. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Clearly it was for the brutalized native peoples whose communities, already decimated by Old World pathogens, had become ensnared in webs of dependency on European goods and armed force. Nov 23, 2011 - Before public diplomacy, there was propaganda, a term coined by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 when he founded a new college to train missionaries to be sent to Protestant Northern Europe, Asia, and the New World. Aug 4, 2013 - The story of the Reformation, and the 130 years of wars that finally ended in 1648, is told in the article, “Sweden's Fifteen Minutes of fame” in the Baltic Cruise section. Mar 27, 2013 - The towns were set on fire, like Dresden during World War II, and the Thirty Years' War kept spilling over into what is now Germany and Eastern Europe. Up with Caesar's army in 54BC, landing to take over the country; get involved in Europe's tragic thirty years war…” (9) The show's lead would be : “…a man who is senile but with extraordinary flashes of intellectual brilliance.