This title is the winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011. 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 such a degr[...]
Peter Wilson provides a concise yet comprehensive account of the Holy Roman Empire and its profound impact during its last three centuries of existence. Drawing on a wealth of research, the expanded new edition has been fully revised and updated throughout and now features a new chapter on 'Nation a[...]
This book provides a radical new interpretation of the aims of the lesser German princes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the example of the duchy of Württemberg. Arguing that the princesâ political ambitions were fundamental in shaping the internal development of their [...]
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 first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the moder[...]
A study of the impact of war and military developments on German society and politics, and on the course of German history into the modern era.[...]
In the Electronics industry, consumer demand for devices with hyper-connectivity and mobility has resulted in the development of a complete system on a chip (SoC). This is a guide to the techniques, methods and technologies to carry out model- based electronic system design.[...]