Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Volume 2: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806

by Joachim Whaley

Book Overview

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a new interpretation of the development of German-speaking central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire or German Reich, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to its dissolution in 1806 after the turmoil of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Going against the notion that this was a long period of decline, Joachim Whaley shows how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199693072
• ISBN13: 9780199693078
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"