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Originally published by D.C. Heath and Company in 1964, this volume emphasizes interpretation instead of narrative, thus offering an introduction to the problems of the war, but not the war itself. The editor challenges the adequacy of the traditional German-centered view of the international conflicts which took place between 1618 and 1648, the period of time from the outbreak of the Bohemian revolt to the Peace of Westphalia, which is commonly referred to as the Thirty Years' War. This show more volume examines that catastrophe from a wide variety of perspectives. show less

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Theodore J. Rabinowicz was born in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia on March 5, 1937. He received bachelor's and master's degrees at Queen's College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in European and colonial American history from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Harvard University before joining the faculty at show more Princeton in 1967. He took emeritus status there in 2006. He was an expert in European history, who believed in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching history. In 1970, he was one of the founding editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He wrote numerous books including Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630; Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age; The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity; The Artist and the Warrior: Military History Through the Eyes of the Masters; and Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian's Questions About the Visual Arts. He died on January 7, 2019 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Europe
Important events
Thirty Years' War
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English

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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940.2History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of EuropeEurope: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean
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D251 .R3History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)Modern history, 1453-1601-1715. 17th centuryThirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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