The Thirty Years War (2009) (edit title/settings)

List of Illustrations
List of Maps and Battle Plans
List of Tables
Note of Tables
Note on Form
The Habsburg Family Tree 1500-1665
Note on Currencies
Preface

PART ONE

Beginnings

1 Introduction
Three Men and a Window
Interpretations
The Argument

2 Trouble in the Heart of Christendom
The Empire
Confessionalization
Religion and Imperial Law

3. Casa d’Austria
Lands and Dynasty
Estates and Confession
The Catholic Revival

4 The Turkish War and its Consequences
The Turkish Menace
The Ways of War
The Long Turkish War
The Brothers’ Quarrel

5 Pax Hispanica
The Spanish Monarchy
The Dutch Revolt 1568-1609
The Spanish Road
Spanish Peace-making

6 Dominium Maris Baltici
Denmark
The Divided House of Vasa
Poland-Lithuania

7 From Rudolf to Matthias 1582-1612
Religion and the German Princes
Confession and Imperial Politics to 1608
Union and Liga 1608-9
The Jülich-Cleves Crisis 1609-10

8 On the Brink?
Emperor Matthias
The Uskok War and the Habsburg Succession 1615-17
Palatine Brinkmanship

PART TWO

Conflict

9 The Bohemian Revolt 1618-20
For Liberty and Privilege
A King for a Crown
Ferdinand Gathers his Forces
White Mountains
Accounting for Failure

10 Ferdinand Triumphant 1621-4
The Palatine Cause
Protestant Cause
The Catholic Ascendancy 1621-9

11 Olivares and Richelieu
Olivares
Richelieu
The Valtellina

12 Denmark’s War against the Emperor 1625-9
Trouble in Lower Saxony
Wallenstein
Denmark’s Defeat 1626-9

13 The Threat of European War 1628-30
The Baltic
The Netherlands
Mantua and La Rochelle
The Edict of Restitution
The Regensburg Electoral Congress 1630

14 The Lion of the North 1630-2
Swedish Intervention
Between the Lion and the Eagle
The Swedish Empire
Calls for Assistance
Zenith

15 Without Gustavus 1633-4
The Heilbronn League
Tension along the Rhine
Spain Intervenes
Wallenstein: the Final Act
The Two Ferdinands

16 For the Liberty of Germany 1635-6
Richelieu Resolves on War
The War in the West 1635-6
The Peace of Prague 1635
Appeals to Patriotism
Renewed Efforts for Peace

17 Habsburg High Tide 1637-40
Stalemate
Resolution on the Rhine
Peace for North Germany?

18 In the Balance 1641-3
The Franc-Swedish Alliance 1641
The War in the Empire 1642-3
Spain’s Growing Crisis 1635-43
From Breda to Rocroi 1637-43

19 Pressure to Negotiate 1644-5
The Westphalian Congress
France in Germany 1644
The Baltic Becomes Swedish 1643-5
1645: Annus horribilis et mirabilis

20 War or Peace 1646-8
A Crisis of Confidence 1646
Towards Consensus
Spain’s Peace with the Dutch
The Final Round 1648

PART THREE

Aftermath

21 The Westphalian Settlement
The International Dimension
A Christian Peace
Demobilization
The Imperial Recovery

22 The Human and Material Cost
An All-destructive Fury?
The Demographic Impact
The Economic Impact
The Crisis of the Territorial State
Cultural Impact

23 Experiencing War
The Nature of Experience
Military-Civil Relations
Perceptions
Commemoration

Abbreviations
Notes
Index