The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (English, Kevin Cramer)

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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public's obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history--the Thirty Years' War--resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and aftermath of the war. The core of this bitter argument was a clash between Protestant and Catholic historians…

ISBN: 9780803232693