Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660 1697
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History Series)
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The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052102448X
ISBN13:9780521024488
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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17th Century Europe History Ireland Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Scandinavia SwedenCustomer Reviews
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