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020 _a9781400830800
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400830800
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400830800
035 _a(DE-B1597)453684
035 _a(OCoLC)979968442
035 _a(OCoLC)984643728
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aD217 .N49 2011
072 7 _aHIS010000
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082 0 4 _a940.232
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNexon, Daniel H.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe :
_bReligious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change /
_cDaniel H. Nexon.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_b7 halftones. 5 line illus. 1 table. 11 maps.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in International History and Politics ;
_v116
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures and Tables --
_tPreface --
_tCHAPTER 1. Introduction --
_tCHAPTER 2. Theorizing International Change --
_tCHAPTER 3. The Dynastic-Imperial Pathway --
_tCHAPTER 4. Religious Contention and the Dynamics of Composite States --
_tCHAPTER 5. The Rise and Decline of Charles of Habsburg --
_tCHAPTER 6. The Dynamics of Spanish Hegemony in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries --
_tCHAPTER 7. The French Wars of Religion --
_tCHAPTER 8. Westphalia Reframed --
_tCHAPTER 9. Looking Forward, Looking Back --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aScholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power. He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830800
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