By David Onnekink

ISBN-10: 0754661296

ISBN-13: 9780754661290

ISBN-10: 1138249769

ISBN-13: 9781138249769

Many historians think about the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' battle in 1648, to mark a watershed in eu diplomacy. it's as a rule agreed that Westphalia dropped at an finish greater than a century of non secular conflicts and marked the start of a brand new period during which secular energy politics was once the top motivating think about diplomacy and battle. the aim of this quantity is to query this assumption and reconceptualise the connection among struggle, overseas coverage and faith in the course of the interval 1648 to 1713. a number of the contributions to the amount at once problem the concept faith ceased to play a task in warfare and overseas coverage. Others determine the normal view that faith didn't play a dominant position after 1648, yet search to reconsider its importance and thereby redefine non secular affects on coverage during this interval. by way of exploring this factor from a variety of views, the quantity deals a different chance to re-evaluate the effect of faith in overseas politics. It additionally yields deeper insights into ideas of secularisation, and enhances the learn of many social and cultural historians who've began to problem the belief of a decline within the impression of faith in family politics and society. via matching the connection among clash and faith with this scholarship a extra nuanced appreciation of the eu state of affairs starts to emerge.

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