Discover why throwing Catholics out a window in Prague didn't instantly start the Thirty Years' War.
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A war of faith, power, commerce, and propaganda, carefully unpacked.
It reads the Thirty Years' War as a tangle of religion, power, trade, propaganda, and violence rather than a simple confessional conflict. The Swedish case is handled with care: religious language and Baltic interests do not line up neatly, and the argument gains strength when…
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