The Holy Roman Empire
The millennium-long history of the Holy Roman Empire has been wilfully misunderstood since the rise of the nation state. But can its past shed light on Europe’s future?
Peter Wilson
Who Won the Thirty Years War?
Peter H. Wilson unravels one of the most notoriously bloody and complex conflicts in European history to answer the question.
Latin America’s Total War
Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America’s bloodiest conflict.
The Origins of Prussian Militarism
Peter H. Wilson suggests that the aggressiveness of Wilhelmine Germany was not necessarily a direct consequence of the Prussian social system of the eighteenth century.