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The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48 (European History in Perspective) Paperback – July 1, 1997

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Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected. Thus the problems of war finance are shown to be an important key to the interaction between inter-state and domestic conflicts during the war. Equally confessional tensions are analysed as a decisive factor linking international and domestic disputes, and the reader is provided with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the major turning points of the war.

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July 1, 1997
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The Thirty Years War provides the reader with not just with an analysis of the origins of the conflict and of the structure of warfare but also with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the key dates and major turning points of the war.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan-3PL (July 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312165854
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312165857
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches

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Charles Poncet

interesting but a little boring

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Mr. Asch is obviously a thorough and competent specialist of the period. It seems to me that he is writing essentially from a German perspective, which is not a bad thing, but his thorough expositions, chapter by chapter, lack the additional dimension one would expect to find in a book describing such an amazing period of European history. In other words, this is accurate, solid stuff but after a while, it takes some effort to labour through the rest of the book. Historians can't be expected to write page turners, but still !

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Excellent work. Greatly appreciated. Received on schedule as stated.

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required for a school class

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Good read of historical Roman Empire

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Bruce W. Willett

The Beginning of the States!

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The Thirty Years War by Ronald Asch is a very good book on the subject of the political forces and their interaction that came to be called the "Thirty Years War". He looks at not only the policies of the major actors in Europe at that time but also at the area of religion and what factor it played in this conflict. I would recommend this book to individuals with a strong understand of the political factors and major European powers of the 17th century. As for others, this book may be a little hard to follow. A map of the region is provided in the front, but I would have enjoyed additional maps encompassing those specific areas that specific chapters covered to be included in those chapters. I would have also liked to see a little bit more of the military aspects of this conflict to be covered in depth. However, even with these minor request, Robert Asch's book is a great reasource covering a interesting period of sometimes forgotten European history. It should be required read for those interested in state politics and to understand how the European states came into existence.

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Excellent High-Level Primer for the Thirty Years War

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For what it is, this book is excellent. However, the book has quite a narrow purpose which makes it potentially a lot less useful or interesting to readers who may be interested in the Thirty Years War generally but not in the contents of this book.
This book is an analysis of the Thirty Years War at a high level. The emphasis is on the interplay of politics and religious confessionalism in bringing about the war, conducting the war and then settling it. The analysis is clear and intelligent and if a reader wants to know, in a relatively short space of time, what the high-level actors did and why, and what were the contextual factors causing them to do so, this is your book. The sections on finance and recruitment are very admirable overviews of these topics.
It is emphatically not a narrative history of the time, or the war in particular, and those looking for a detailed description of the politics, diplomacy, campaigns, battles and general events should certainly look elsewhere.
In sticking so resolutely to its task, the book, although a model of clarity of expression, lacks the narrative detail or critiques that many or perhaps most readers would want in a book on this topic: it is an academic book in tone and purpose. But for any reader wanting high-level analysis and contextualization of the Thirty Years War, perhaps after reading a more general history but having the feeling that they weren't seeing the wood for the trees, or reading a military-focused book and finding that they wished to know more about the context of the particular campaigns, this book is very highly recommended.

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