Charles XI and Swedish absolutism
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Charles XI and Swedish absolutism
(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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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