Europe at War with Itself: Vol. I From the Religious Wars to the Nineteenth-Century Balance of Power (WARS IN HUMAN HISTORY, Band 1) - Couverture souple

Name: Europe at War with Itself: Vol. I From the Religious Wars to the Nineteenth-Century Balance of Power (WARS IN HUMAN HISTORY, Band 1)
Author: Omar, Dr. Mohammed Hasan
ISBN: 9798167496125

Omar, Dr. Mohammed Hasan

9798167496125: Europe at War with Itself: Vol. I From the Religious Wars to the Nineteenth-Century Balance of Power (WARS IN HUMAN HISTORY, Band 1)

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Editeur : Independently published, 2026

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Why did European powers repeatedly go to war, even after experiencing the destruction and economic costs of earlier conflicts?
For centuries, European rulers and governments fought over religion, dynastic succession, territory, commercial interests, national identity, and the balance of power. Each generation negotiated peace settlements, formed alliances, and attempted to prevent future wars. Yet conflict repeatedly returned.
Europe at War with Itself, the first volume in the series Wars in Human History: Power, Ambition, Fear, and the Failure to Learn, examines the political decisions that shaped Europe's major conflicts from the Reformation to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Rather than presenting a conventional military history of battles and commanders, this book investigates the deeper questions behind warfare:

What did rulers and governments hope to achieve?
How did declared justifications differ from political and strategic interests?
Why did defensive alliances sometimes increase insecurity?
How did peace settlements resolve immediate disputes while leaving new grievances?
Why did political leaders repeatedly underestimate the consequences of their decisions?

The narrative follows Europe's transformation through the Thirty Years' War, the ambitions of Louis XIV, eighteenth-century dynastic conflicts, the French Revolution, Napoleon's expansion, the Congress of Vienna, the Crimean War, Italian and German unification, and the growing tensions that culminated in the July Crisis of 1914.
Throughout, the book distinguishes political objectives from historical outcomes and examines the recurring relationship between ambition, fear, miscalculation, and war.
Written for general readers, students, and those interested in history and international relations, Europe at War with Itself offers an accessible examination of how European states struggled to establish lasting peace—and why their repeated efforts ultimately failed to prevent another continental catastrophe.

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