Charles XI and Swedish absolutism

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Charles XI and Swedish absolutism

A.F. Upton

(Cambridge studies in early modern history / edited by John Elliott, Olwen Hufton, and H.G. Koenigsberger)

Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-272) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 1. Introduction: the historical background to Sweden's seventeenth-century crisis
  • 2. The formative years: regency and war, 1660-79
  • 3. The defining of the absolute monarchy
  • 4. The financial reconstruction
  • 5. The indelningswerk and the rebuilding of the armed forces
  • 6. The search for external security, 1679-86
  • 7. The consolidation of the absolutist system
  • 8. Completing the superstructure
  • 9. The royal government at work
  • 10. The external territories under absolutism
  • 11. The maturing of Charles XI's foreign policies
  • 12. The last years of the reign
  • 13. The absolutism of Charles XI
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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