THE PATH TO PEACE AT WESTPHALIA: DIPLOMACY AND MEDIATION IN THE THIRTY YEARS WAR 1618-1848.
Code: C231
Price: £29.99
Catalogue(s): Franklin
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
400pp., 8 illus. 2026. This study shows that Imperial victory at Nordlingen (1634) was merely the prologue to Hapsburg disaster, and to the decisive change in global power politics with the rise of France as a great power under Richelieu and Louis XIII, French victory in Spain, the continuing power and rivalry of Sweden and the Protestant powers in German, and the financial power and imperial challenge of the Dutch Republic.