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The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe : Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nexon, Daniel H., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing international change
  • The dynastic-imperial pathway
  • Religious contention and the dynamics of composite states
  • The rise and decline of Charles of Habsburg
  • The dynamics of Spanish hegemony in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century
  • The French wars of religion
  • Westphalia reframed
  • Looking forward, looking back.