Derek Croxton. Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xiv + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Robert Tiegs (Louisiana State University) Published on H-War (June, ) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey. Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. th Edition. by D. Croxton (Author) out of 5 stars. 8 ratings. ISBN ISBN /5(8). I subtitled the book “The Last Christian Peace” because I wanted to emphasize the ways that it was a continuation of earlier traditions — of dynasticism, Christianity, and feudal modes of political organization. I did this to counter the prevailing idea of “Westphalian sovereignty,” the idea that the Peace of Westphalia somehow Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Westphalia was the first large congress where this was attempted, and the first to be subjected to the full glare of public attention facilitated by improved communications and new print media. Placing the congress in the diplomatic practices of the s leads Croxton to characterize it as a "baroque peace" (p. ). Croxton, Derek, and Anuschka Tischer. The peace of Westphalia: A historical dictionary (Greenwood Publishing Group, ). Croxton, Derek. "The Peace of Westphalia of and the Origins of Sovereignty." International History Review (): Mowat, R. B. History of European Diplomacy, () pp online; Schmidt. Westphalia by D. Croxton, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
Derek Croxton is the author of two previous books on the Congress of Westphalia: Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, () and A Historical Dictionary of the Peace of Westphalia, with Anuschka Tischer (). This sweeping, exhaustively researched history is the first comprehensive account of the Peace of Westphalia in English. Bringing together the latest scholarship with an engaging narrative, it retraces the historical origins of the Peace, exploring its political-intellectual underpinnings and placing it in a broad global and chronological context. View Synopsis. Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. th Edition. by D. Croxton (Author) out of 5 stars. 8 ratings. ISBN ISBN
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