Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace

The Peace of Westphalia, which brought to a close the Thirty Years War, is arguably the most important treaty signed before the twentieth century. It was a signal event of the early modern era, thoroughly of its time even as it prefigured the radical polit

Author: D. Croxton
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/25/2013
Pages: 452
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781137333322

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2014

About the Author
Derek Croxton is the author of two previous books on the Congress of Westphalia: Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648 (1999) and A Historical Dictionary of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, with Anuschka Tischer (2001).