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Tables of Contents for The Thirty Years' War
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
 
Contributors
xi
 
Preface
xii
 
Acknowledgements
xvi
 
Conventions
xviii
 
Chronology
xix
 
Europe Between War and Peace, 1555--1618
1
41
The Habsburgs and Europe
2
9
Germany before the war
11
11
The Union, the League and the politics of Europe
22
12
Simon Adams
The gathering storm
34
8
The Indecisive War, 1618--1629
42
32
The war for Bohemia
43
12
Europe and the Palatine war
55
9
Simon Adams
Geoffrey Parker
The Danish intermezzo
64
10
E. Ladewig Petersen
The Habsburgs Victorious
74
25
The Imperial vision
75
5
R. J. W. Evans
The practice of absolutism I: 1621--1626
80
5
The practice of absolutism II: 1626--1629
85
7
Gerhard Benecke
Spain and the war
92
7
John H. Elliott
Total War
99
39
On the edge of the abyss
100
8
Bodo Nischan
1630--1632: The intervention of Sweden
108
11
1633--1635: Oxenstierna versus Wallenstein
119
10
France's 'war by diversion'
129
9
Richard J. Bonney
Countdown to Peace
138
32
The Swedish dilemma
140
5
Michael Roberts
1635-1642: The deadlock broken
145
7
1643-1647: The defeat of the Habsburgs
152
8
1647-1650: The making of peace
160
10
The War in Myth, Legend and History
170
33
The universal soldier
171
15
The war and German society
186
6
Christopher R. Friedrichs
The war and politics
192
11
Maps
203
9
Abbreviations
212
1
Notes
213
35
Bibliographical essay
248
25
Geoffrey Parker
Index of authors
273
8
General index
281