Author: Peter H. Wilson

This volume’s juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the …

A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE ‘This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful intro …

A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE ‘This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful intro …

Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the kinds o …

Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the kinds o …

The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian a …

The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian a …

Europe was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled …

Europe was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled …

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to su …

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016’Hugely impressive… Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations’ Literary Review A great, spraw …

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) was Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history’s greatest generals faced each other at Lutzen in November 1632, mid-way th …

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) was Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history’s greatest generals faced each other at Lutzen in November 1632, mid-way th …

Desde su fundación con Carlomagno hasta su destrucción, un milenio más tarde, a manos de Napoleón, el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, una entidad vasta y en constante expansión, tan antigua como únic …

La Guerra de los Treinta Años desgarró el corazón de Europa entre 1618 y 1648: una cuarta parte de la población alemana murió entre violencias, hambrunas y pestes, regiones enteras de Europa central …

La Guerra de los Treinta Años desgarró el corazón de Europa entre 1618 y 1648: una cuarta parte de la población alemana murió entre violencias, hambrunas y pestes, regiones enteras de Europa central …

Kampf um Macht und Glauben: der Krieg, der Europa prägte Was mit dem Prager Fenstersturz im Mai 1618 begann, sollte sich zu einem jahrzehntelangen Konflikt auswachsen, der die religiöse und politisch …

Kampf um Macht und Glauben: der Krieg, der Europa prägte Was mit dem Prager Fenstersturz im Mai 1618 begann, sollte sich zu einem jahrzehntelangen Konflikt auswachsen, der die religiöse und politisch …

Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics. Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe. …

*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*’No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book’ Simon He …

El celebrado historiador Peter Wilson, autor de los monumentales La Guerra de los Treinta Años. Una tragedia europea y El Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, se embarca ahora en una obra no menos titánic …

An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict. Covering all aspects of the war fr …

An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict. Covering all aspects of the war fr …

German history after the Reformation is often seen as a confusing period of political failures before the emergence of powerful states like Prussia give some coherence to the national story. The inab …

Vom kriegerischen Herzen Europas: eine faszinierende Analyse Welchen Einfluss hatte der Militarismus auf die deutsche Geschichte der Neuzeit? Peter H. Wilson fächert in beeindruckender Weise die gesa …

Vom kriegerischen Herzen Europas: eine faszinierende Analyse Welchen Einfluss hatte der Militarismus auf die deutsche Geschichte der Neuzeit? Peter H. Wilson fächert in beeindruckender Weise die gesa …

The Holy Roman Empire has always caused tremendous confusion for students of European history, and this book sets out to provide a clear account of this remarkable organisation – comparable in many w …

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers …

"The scholarship of this book is breathtaking…No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book." -Simon Heffer, Th …

An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year"Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."-Tom Holland, The Telegraph"Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputa …