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Item Details
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CHARLES XI AND SWEDISH ABSOLUTISM, 1660-1697
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| By: |
A.F. Upton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£110.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521573904 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521573900 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
4 June, 1998 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
An account of absolute rule and reform in Sweden under King Charles XI, 1660-1697, first published in 1998. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 b/w illus. 1 map |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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