The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

CHAPTER I.

CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR.

SECTION I.--_Political Institutions of Germany._

[Sidenote: § 1. Want of national institutions in Germany.]

It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an...