Das Alte Europa zwischen Krieg und Frieden

This volume continues the exploration of the conglomerate of politically guided culture in Europe. In vividly moving tableaux and clear analyses, the following intertwine: varieties of the Reformation and confessionalization; “national” religious wars and the European Thirty Years' War; the Habsburg Empire; the “absolute” French monarchy with its court culture and expansionism; the Dutch and Swiss republic experiments; the English parliamentary model of kingship and liberal enlightenment; veritable revolutions in North America and France. After 1800, the old powers returned to Europe and ushered in the nationalist maelstrom of the 19th century.