| Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660 1697 Contributor(s): Upton, Anthony F. (Author), Upton, A. F. (Author), Elliott, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 052102448X ISBN-13: 9780521024488 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the 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 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Scandinavia |
| Dewey: 948.503 |
| LCCN: 2006277427 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |