Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697Cambridge University Press, 04.06.1998 - 281 Seiten 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. |
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II | 6 |
The defining of the absolute monarchy | 31 |
The financial reconstruction | 55 |
The indelningsverk and the rebuilding of the armed forces | 71 |
The search for external security 16791686 | 91 |
The consolidation of the absolutist system | 111 |
Completing the superstructure | 149 |
The royal government at work | 165 |
The external territories under the absolutism | 187 |
The maturing of Charles XIs foreign policies | 201 |
The last years of the reign | 223 |
The absolutism of Charles XI | 251 |
Bibliography | 262 |
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