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The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650
An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization [Two Volumes]
 Series: Greenwood Encyclopedias of Modern World Wars
 Cathal J. Nolan

0-313-33045-X/978-0-313-33045-2

Description
Wars were fought on a global scale between the 12th and 17th centuries as navies, armies, and chartered merchant companies fought one another (and locals) on every inhabited land and every navigable body of water, and continental rivalries turned into global rivalries for power, territory, markets, and souls. Close to 2,000 A-to-Z entries offer detailed and compelling information about the period of the Wars of Religion, the first period when war was waged around the world.

Reviews:
-"What stands out immediately about this encyclopedia is that the entire work-over 3,000 entries from abatis to Zwingli spread over 1,000 pages of closely printed text-was written by Cathal J. Nolan. He is not an editor in the usual sense of an encyclopedia, but the author of this work....[i]n every area of expertise-from firearms and technology to social history and theology-Nolan has read and synthesized the major expert or experts in the field, making this a very impressive work of synthesis. The work is truly global in scope....[t]he work will be useful to both military historians and non-military historians of early modern Europe alike....[t]his is an extremely user-friendly as well as reliable reference work. If you have only one reference work on early modern military history on your shelf, this is now the one to have." —The Journal of Military History
-"The focus of this encyclopedic historical reference work by Nolan is the European wars of religion that were fought from the 14th through the 17th centuries, various chronological and geographical historical tributaries that are in one way or another related to those wars also come under consideration. The bulk of the approximately 2500 alphabetical entries provide narratives of major wars and battles and other standard topics of military history. However, they also include biographies of key military, political, and intellectual figures. Additionally, Nolan acknowledges the complexity of war by addressing questions of military technology, royal finance, social and class relations, major confessional groups, theological debates, and elite mores and conceits about combat and chivalry. Following the entries, a chronology of major events from 1008 to 1650 is presented, in addition to a thematically organized selected bibliography. Twenty-five pages of maps are also included." —Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Cathal J. Nolan is Executive Director of Boston University's International History Institute, and Associate Professor of History. He is the author of the multiple award-winning The Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations (Greenwood, 2002), the award winning Notable U.S. Ambassadors since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1997). Dr. Nolan has also authored, co-authored, or edited many books, including Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs (Praeger, 2004), Power and Responsibility in World Affairs: Reformation versus Transformation (Praeger, 2004), NATO for a New Century: Atlanticism and European Security (with Carl Hodge, Praeger, 2002), and Principled Democracy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy (Praeger, 1993).
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