Dimensions
130 x 199 x 19mm
In this brilliant and provocative study, renowned historian Geoffrey Parker traces the rise and fall of global empires, the impact of mass warfare and limits to religious growth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
He ranges from the dramatic rise and fall of Philip II's Spanish superpower to William of Orange's invasion of England; from Elizabethan espionage and treason to the spread of Protestantism; from the "etiquette of atrocity" in early modern Europe. All reveal what the short-lived triumphs and devastating failures of this period can tell us about today's world.
