The Thirty Years WarThrough a wide variety of key documentsmost of which appear in English for the first time herethis sourcebook reveals the origins, significance, and consequences of the Thirty Years War (1618 1648), the first great, and catastrophic, pan European conflict. Headnotes introduce each selection, and a general Introduction provides both a brief history of the War and a discussion of its causes. Maps and a chronology are included, as are an index, a select