Author: Gustaf Edvard KlemmingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Kongl. Bibliotekets Samling Af Samtida Berättelser Om Sveriges Krig
Author: Gustaf Edvard KlemmingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Thirty Years War
Author: Peter H. WilsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424625X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor’s envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals—the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war’s end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country’s greatest disaster. An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson’s masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict. For a map of Central Europe in 1618, referenced on page XVI, please visit this book’s page on the Harvard University Press website.
Bidrag till kännedom av Finlands natur och folk
Author: Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
Author: Anna-Brigitte SchlittlerPublisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839457386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Carl Franz Bally founded a shoe factory in Switzerland in 1851. Within decades, the Bally name had achieved worldwide recognition for its high-quality footwear. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally's fortunes in the US, the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the rise of strategic product display. The research focuses on the 1930s and 1940s: years of economic crisis and war, characterized by a wide diversity of designs and increasing variety in product range. Shortages also led to experiments with materials and technical innovations. Featuring numerous points of contact with adjacent fields of historical study, this publication marks a contribution to the history of fashion as the history of industrially manufactured products.
Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products / Progrès dans la Chimie des Substances Organiques Naturelles
Author: Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 370918052X
Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 528
Book Description
Second-generation Holocaust Literature
Author: Erin Heather McGlothlinPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.
The Thirty Years War
Author: C. V. WedgwoodPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
The Thirty Years War
Author: Stephen J. LeePublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415268622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This pamphlet guides the reader through one of the most complex periods of European history, when religion interacted with rebellion and dynastic rivalry in a series of conflicts in central Europe known collectively as the Thirty Years War.
The German Poets of the First World War
Author: Patrick BridgwaterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000769364
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in both German and English) the texts of all the main poems discussed, this book contains many not readily available elsewhere. Authors discussed include Trakl, Rile and George as well as less familiar names . The book not only corrects the distorted view of the subject perpetuated by most histories of German literature, but will also help to English First World War poetry into perspective.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
Author: Friedrich SchillerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613103662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description