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Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
Anthony F. Upton
出版Cambridge University Press, 1998-06-04
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Europe / Nordic CountriesPolitical Science / World / European
ISBN05215739049780521573900
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5e5Nk1TEhZEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.