Oxford:: Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press,, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and lower corner of back cover. Dj has wear along edges with slight tears and creasing on lower edge of back cover. Light scuffing to covers of dj. Slight twist to binding. 531 pages with footnotes, maps, political and military chronology, genealogical table, glossary, bibliography, and index. A study of the development of a Habsburg state in Central Europe during the Early Modern Era by examining the religious, intellectual, and regional reasons for its growth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.