Westphalia The Last Christian Peace [Hardcover]

This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context.PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction 2. The Thirty Years' War 3. Origins of the Congress of Westphalia 4. Governments and Goals 5. Structures PART II: NEGOTIATIONS 6. The Long Beginning 7. Foreign Satisfaction 8. German Issues PART III: CONCLUSION 9. Consequences 10. Foundations 11. Innovations

It provides a detailed but comprehensible accountof the Westphalia negotiations that interweaves a narrative of events and ananalysis of the structures and mechanisms of diplomatic interaction. & aninformative and important book. (David Parrott, The Journal of Modern History,Vol. 87 (4), December, 2015)

'Here is everything one might want to know about the Peace of Westphalia and more. . . . Recommended.' - CHOICE

'A timely and extremely important study of the central peace settlement in modern European history, by the leading Anglophone historian of seventeenth-century European diplomacy. Derek Croxton's book is the most up-to-date study of the Peace of Westphalia in any language and will be essential reading for students of history and of international relations.' - Hamish Scott, Professor, University of Glasgow, UK

'Derek Croxton's scholarly, detailed account of the negotiations in Westphalia makes the actors' tangled motives, aims, tactics and assumptions comprehensible to the modern reader, thereby showing why a dreadful war continued for five years without even ending in a comprehensive peace. The peace settlement that emerged is seen not as the foundation of a new, modern international system, but as a distinctly Baroque product, the last effort at a Christian peaclsh