The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648: The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy

Contents
Introduction
I. The Naval and Economic Challenge to the Habsburg Imperium
II. Habsburg Domains, Ferdinand and the Defenestration of Prague
III. The Thirty Years War: Military developments in the Thirty Years War 1618–1634
IV. Gustavus: the War in the Baltic
V. The Emergence of France, the Edict, Wallenstein and the Mantuan War
VI. The Dutch Front and Naval War
VII. Gustavus Invades Germany
VIII. Wallenstein Returns and the Battle of Lutzen
IX. Wallenstein’s fall, Oxenstierna and the Peace of Prague
X. France Declares War and the Dutch Alliance
XI. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Defects and the Swedish Army Mutiny
XII. French Economic and Military Mobilisation
XIII. Swedish Recovery and the Emergence of Hesse
XIV. Saxe-Weimar Breaks Out and the Battle for the ‘Spanish Road’
XV. Global War
XVI. Stalemate on Land; Dutch Supremacy at Sea and Prelude to Revolution
XVII. Iberian Revolutions and the Fall of Olivares
XVIII. Origins of Peace
XIX. Enter Torstensson and Mazarin, Italy and Habsburg Exhaustion
XX. Torstensson’s War and the Invasion of Denmark
XXI. War and Peace: Mazarin and France Ascendant
XXII. Setting up the Conference 1643–1645
XXIII. Peace and the End of Habsburg Supremacy in Europe
XXIV. Postscript: The Struggle for the Mastery of Europe and European Identity
Notes
Index
Index