Many historians consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648, to mark a watershed in European international relations. It is gene

Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long his

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The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' - have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized