Sweden in the seventeenth century
| Titel: | Sweden in the seventeenth century / Paul Douglas Lockhart |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave, 2003 |
| Umfang: | XIX, 178 S. : Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0333731573 |
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- Map of the Swedish Empire in the Seventeenth Century
- p. ix
- The Vasa and Pfalz-Zweibrucken Dynasties
- p. x
- Preface
- p. xi
- A Brief Chronology
- p. xiv
- Chapter 1
- The Sixteenth-Century Inheritance
- p. 1
- Resources, Demographics, and the Structure of Society
- p. 3
- The Creation of the Vasa State
- p. 5
- Geopolitics and War
- p. 13
- The Vasa State in 1611
- p. 17
- Chapter 2
- The Reign of Gustav II Adolf
- p. 22
- The Reconciliation: King, Nobility, and Nation
- p. 23
- Constitutional and Administrative Reform
- p. 26
- Military Reform
- p. 32
- Chapter 3
- Sweden on the World Stage: The Foreign Policy of Gustav II Adolf
- p. 38
- Foreign Policy Goals
- p. 39
- The Eastern Threats: Russia and Poland
- p. 41
- The Background to the German War
- p. 44
- The 'Lion of the North'
- p. 49
- An Uncertain Goal
- p. 53
- Chapter 4
- The Interregnum and Queen Christina, 1632-54
- p. 56
- Domestic Politics: The Regency and the 'Form of Government'
- p. 57
- Changing Goals in Germany
- p. 60
- Bromsebro and Westphalia
- p. 64
- Christina: The Costs of War ... and of Faith
- p. 67
- Chapter 5
- The Swedish 'Power State': Society, Culture, and the Burden of War
- p. 73
- Paying for War: Economic Development and War Finance
- p. 74
- Swedish Society at War
- p. 79
- Cultural Life in the Stormaktstid
- p. 85
- Chapter 6
- Proto-absolutism or 'Military Monarchy'? The Brief Reign of Karl X Gustav, 1654-59
- p. 91
- The Polish War
- p. 93
- The Danish War, 1657-60
- p. 97
- Karl X Gustav and the Swedish Constitution
- p. 101
- Chapter 7
- The Swedish Empire in Louis XIV's Europe, 1660-79
- p. 106
- The Burden of Empire
- p. 107
- Aristocratic Reaction: The Regency of Karl XI
- p. 112
- The Early Reign of Karl XI: Constitutional Debates and War
- p. 117
- Chapter 8
- The Swedish 'Absolutist' State, 1679-97
- p. 123
- The Imposition of Absolutism
- p. 124
- The Absolute Monarchy at Work
- p. 130
- Armed Neutrality
- p. 136
- Absolutism and Swedish Society
- p. 139
- Chapter 9
- Epilogue
- p. 145
- The Violent Death of an Empire
- p. 145
- Analysis of Decline
- p. 147
- Notes
- p. 153
- Further Reading
- p. 169
- Index
- p. 172
