Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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coast. Pomerania — with themouths of the Oder, Elbe, and Weser — was the payment shereceived for her part in the war. This gave Sweden controlover German commerce. France annexed most of Alsace, withsome fortresses on the German bank of the Rhine. The inde-pendence of Switzerland (§ 161) and of the Dutch Provinces(§ 225) was expressly recognized. c. Besides this loss of imperial territory, there were variouspolitical rearrangements within Germany, which made clearthe lack of unity in the Empire. The states were expressly 1 The practice of toleration had gained ground so far that the Catholics inthe North German Protestant states were rarely molested. Many of the SouthGerman Protestants, however, were driven into exile. Indeed, this was thefirst cause of the coming to America of the Pennsylvania Dutch ; most ofthe German immigration to America before the Revolution was connectedwith this expulsion or with the devastation of the Rhine provinces a littlelater by Louis XIV (§ 265).
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§232) THE THIRTY YEARS WAR. 253 granted the right of forming alliances with each other orwith foreign powers; and all possibility of important actionby the imperial Diet was taken away, by a provision that invotes which concerned religion no state of the Empire shouldbe bound, except by its own consent. Foe Further Reading.—Motleys Dutch Bepublic and United Neth-erlands ; Haussers Reformation; Johnsons Europe in the SixteenthCentury and Wakeinans Ascendancy of France, to page 105 ; CreightonsElizabeth ; Greens English People ; Bairds Huguenots ; Willerts Henryof Navarre ; Gardiners Thirty Years1 War ; Hendersons Short History ofGermany; Fletchers Gustavus Adolphus ; Dodges Gustavus Adolphus;Perkins Richelieu; Putnams William the Silent. In fiction : Kingsleys Westward, Ho ! (for England and the Armada);Schillers Wallenstein ; Bulwers Richelieu. Exercises. — 1. A catchword review of the Reformation in Germany,through the whole period. 2. Contrast the character of the Reforma- tion

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