Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Volume 2: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a new interpretation of the development of German speaking central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire or German Reich, from the great reforms of 1495 1500 to its dissolution in 1806 after the turmoil of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Going against the notion that this was a long period of decline, Joachim Whaley shows how imperial institutions developed in response to the crises of the sixteenth