Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521024488)

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.

Author: A. F. Upton
ISBN-10: 052102448X
ISBN-13: 9780521024488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2006
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d