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The Peace of Westphalia A Historical Dictionary

By Derek Croxton and Anuschka Tischer

ISBN: 0-313-31004-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31004-1

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400 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/2001

List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Highly recommended for academic collections.
—CHOICE September 2002
The Peace of Westphallia:A Historical Dictionary is a useful reference work for researchers interested in the complex negotiations leading to the famous 1648 peace that ended the Thirty Years' War....This dictionary will be especially helpful for undergraduate and graduate students doing seventeenth-century European history research projects....These commentaries should help stimulate new research on the important religious and political settlement of 1648.
—The Sixteenth Century Journal Spring 2004
[a]n indispensable aid to anglophone scholars.... Croxton and Tischer are to be commended....Their bibliography is up-to-date and, like the entries themselves, broadly international in scope, and includes not only the expected German, French, Spanish, and Dutch literature, but also the latest historiography in Danish, Swedish, Polish, and even Russian. This reviewer has tried, without success, to find and visable gaps in the book's coverage....Croxton and Tischer have provided students of early modern diplomatic history with a resource of immense utility. I would suggest that scholars delving into the primary sources on the peace- like the Acta Pacis Westphalicae seies-do so with this dictionary close at hand.
—The International History Review June 2003
[b]elongs in all research libraries and in any library where early modern European history is of interest to it's users.
—ARBA Online 2003

Description: A pivotal event in early modern history, the Congress of Westphalia gave birth to our contemporary international political system. This book provides an essential reference for anyone wishing to sort out the complicated negotiations. With over 300 detailed entries, covering a wide variety of topics from the relevant people, places, and influential battles to critical concepts and technical terms, the book will be useful both to scholars and to students interested in the Peace of Westphalia, the Holy Roman Empire, or the events of the 1640s.

A pivotal event in early modern history, the Congress of Westphalia gave birth to our contemporary international political system. While bringing peace to Germany after the Thirty Years' War, it created a new order in Europe and resolved longer lasting problems, including religious divisions and the relationship between emperor and estates. It was one of the longest and most complex, peace conferences in history. This book provides an essential reference for anyone wishing to sort out the complicated negotiations.

The significance of the European order established in 1648 extends far beyond the paragraphs of the treaty. The Congress alone--the first of its kind--became a standard for future diplomacy and negotiation. Even today, historians are finding new aspects of this extraordinarily complex Congress and Peace. With over 300 detailed entries, covering a wide variety of topics from the relevant people, places, and influential battles to critical concepts and technical terms, the book will be useful both to scholars and to students interested in the Peace of Westphalia, the Holy Roman Empire, or the events of the 1640s.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
The Dictionary
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index

LCC Class: 940


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