The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714.(Review)

The view that the conduct of foreign policy and war and religion became increasingly disentangled in Europe after the mid-seventeenth century is a well-established one, with the Peace of Westphalia (1648) often identified as a crucial turning point. Laurence Huey Boles, Jr.'s The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 (New York/Washington: Peter Ling, 1997; pp. x+287. N.p.) serves to illustrate how far this transformation had gone by the early eighteenth century. Boles tells a series of interlinking and complementary stories about how the War of the Spanish Succession, and the ambitions of various rulers during its course, affected …