Status Updates From Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: E...

So, the current point of focus in the book is 1631, the war started 14 years earlier, and is going to end 1648, but the book is around 80% done. I smell some large quantities of compression awaiting in the next chapters. Whatever the reasons, a bit too skewed for me not to feel like some relevant information has been left out, and worthwhile tangents being left unexplored.

Started out really strong by analysing conditions and political calculations leading up to the war, then turned into more of an event history of the war with already established political player, whose sole military nature bored me after a while, but at the 40% mark Münkler becomes more analytical again, as the war refuses to end for concrete reasons, which makes it a lesson in ((also) the emergence of) geopolitics

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My new hobby horse. Not as important as other projects, but very much a central piece of history exemplifying, as the most obvious dimension, the interaction of the confessional age with real power politiques. Münkler being a Professor of Political Science is used to primarily analytical, even if often genealogical, exposition, and therefore I am amazed of how engagingly he narrates the events.