Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) Book

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 stabilise 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.Read More

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  • 0521573904
  • 9780521573900
  • A. F. Upton
  • 4 June 1998
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 308
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