The struggle for power in early modern Europe: religious conflict, dynastic empires, and international change
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Main Author: Nexon, Daniel H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2009
Series:Princeton studies in international history and politics
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-331) and index
Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperi
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 354 p)
ISBN:9781400830800
DOI:10.1515/9781400830800

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