Books by Peter H. Wilson
Found 3 books
Peter H. Wilson, Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 . I thought I would love this lengthy tome (913 pp.), and it is quite a catalog, and impressively objective to boot. Yet something is missing, and I skipped around and ended up putting it down with few regrets.
Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire .
4. Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire . As clear and understandable a treatment of this topic as you are likely to find, Wilson himself writes: “A major reason for the Empire’s relative scholarly neglect is that its history is so difficult to tell. The Empire lacked the things giving shape to conventional national history: a stable heartland, a capital city, centralized political institutions and, perhaps most fundamentally, a single ‘nation.’ It was also ver...
4. The Thirty Years' War , by Peter H. Wilson. I read about one-third of this lengthy and clearly written Belknap Press book. After a while I realized I was learning what the War wasn't (not the beginning of religious toleration, not the beginning of the modern nation-state, etc.), but not what the War was . I guess I'll never know.