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Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660 1697

Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660 1697

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

Scandinavian History

ISBN10: 0521573904
ISBN13: 9780521573900
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 4 1998
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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