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Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hattendorf
Publisher : Protagonists of History in International Perspective
ISBN 13 : 9789490258191
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Charles XII written by John Hattendorf and published by Protagonists of History in International Perspective. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Charles XII has mainly been seen in the context of Sweden's national experience, yet his activities stretched across the European continent from Russia and Denmark to Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, and the Ottoman Empire. Even the Dutch Republic, Britain, and France became involved diplomatically and economically. In this volume, 20 scholars from 12 different countries contribute to creating a broader perspective on Charles XII and the Great Northern War in European history. The contributors to this volume expand the scope of international research on Charles XII and his time by examining not only his victories and defeats but the king's impact in other areas as well.
Author : Michael Glaeser
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
ISBN 13 : 9781913336462
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (364 download)
Download or read book By Defeating My Enemies written by Michael Glaeser and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Defeating My Enemies looks at the life and reign of Charles XII of Sweden and provides context and reassessment of his military career in the Great Northern War.
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher : New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 written by Robert Nisbet Bain and published by New York, G.P. Putnam's sons. This book was released on 1895 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Charles XII written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ragnhild Marie Hatton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charles XII of Sweden written by Ragnhild Marie Hatton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sergey Shamenkov
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804515965
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Charles XII's Karoliners written by Sergey Shamenkov and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a continuation of the special series devoted to the Swedish Army from the time of Charles XII. It examines in detail the uniforms and equipment of the Swedish cavalry during the Great North War. Based on iconographic and written sources, the development, changes, and differences in the uniforms and equipment of officers, non-commissioned officers, troopers and musicians, of both the Horse and the Dragoon regiments, as well as their horse furniture are covered. A separate chapter examines changes in the uniform of the Royal Drabant Corps. The book uses material from published studies and articles, as well as previously unpublished documents and other little-known illustrated material. The text is complemented by paintings, details of paintings, and engravings of Swedish cavalrymen created during the period of the Great Northern War. Many of the details from the paintings are shown here for the first time. The author has used numerous artifacts and portraits, as well as archive sources, on the theme of the Swedish army during the Great North War from the collections of Swedish museums as well as those of museums in both Russia and the Ukraine. As in the first volume dedicated to the Swedish infantry and artillerymen, the book presents photographs of various finds of items of Swedish equipment found on the battlefields of the Great North War. Additionally, the book presents many of the author's reconstructions of uniform items of the Swedish cavalry, in both color and black and white, especially created for this book. The presented information will prove invaluable to professional historians, museum staff, artists, participants in the various military-historical re-enactment societies, as well as to those enthusiasts who reconstruct the armies and battles of the Great North War on their wargaming tables.
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire written by Robert Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528610
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (286 download)
Download or read book From Oxenstierna to Charles XII written by Michael Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, by the doyen of historians of Sweden, on Oxenstierna, Charles X and Charles XII.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781932650099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Poltava 1709 written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered scholars from around the globe and from various fields of study to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. This collection of their papers provides a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the legacies of the battle's major players.
Author : Janet M. Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351952609
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Charles Whitworth written by Janet M. Hartley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1700 the armies of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden met at Narva to fight the first battle of what was to be known as the Great Northern War. Although this first engagement was to result in a humiliating defeat for Peter, it marked the start of a struggle that twenty years later would see Russia emerge as a major power and radically alter the balance of power in Europe. This work examines the changes in the balance of power in Europe in the early eighteenth century as a result of the Great Northern War and the War of the Spanish Succession through the writings and career of Charles Whitworth, the first British Ambassador to Russia, and Minister in The Hague, Berlin, Ratisbon and Cambrai. Whitworth was an acute, witty and indefatigable writer. His long and detailed dispatches and reports comment on Russian, Prussian, Austrian and Dutch domestic and foreign policy, on trading and commercial matters, on leading personalities and events, and on the diplomacy of the Great Northern War and the War of Spanish Succession. He was in Russia from 1705 to 1712 and witnessed the growing military, naval and commercial power of the state and was acutely aware of the potential threat of Russia to British interests. The period of Whitworth's diplomatic career, from 1702-1725, witnessed a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the North, and the nature, and timing, of Whitworth's postings made him uniquely qualified to chart and analyse this development. Drawing on a wide variety of manuscript sources, Dr Hartley has produced a compelling account both of Whitworth and the momentous events taking place in Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Author : Anthony F. Upton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573900
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697 written by Anthony F. Upton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Charles Homer Haskins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674760752
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century written by Charles Homer Haskins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Middle Ages form a complex and varied as well as a very considerable period of human history. Within their thousand years of time they include a large variety of peoples, institutions, and types of culture, illustrating many processes of historical development and containing the origins of many phases of modern civilization. - p. [3].
Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Queen Christina written by August Strindberg and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strindberg's "Kristina" (1903), a queen reared to be a man fights for her self existence, against her feminine nature and succumbing to it. The play is the unacknowledged basis for the Garbo film "Queen Christina." In this skillful study of a neurotic and complex woman, Strindberg reveals the power of his dramatic conceptions and the mastery he had acquired of his craft. The play was the last of a series of Strindberg's later historical dramas that are among the most powerful plays of the kind produced in modern times. The play centers on the scandals leading up to Kristina's abdication of the throne of Sweden in 1654, which was a product of chiefly two causes: accusations that she had stolen or squandered a five million doller tribute from the Peace of Westphalia and rumors of her impending conversion to Roman Catholicism. In the events leading up to her abdication, she is shown struggling against her old lovers and mentors, putting on ballets to distract from her financial misconduct, fighting against her feminine nature and succumbing to it. Her realistic, even naturalistic portrayal in the play cast Strindberg as revisionist historian of sorts: prior histories of Swedish monarchs all made them out to be noble, despite their flaws. For "telling it as it is," Strindberg is still hated by the Swedish right wing.
Author : Various Authors,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6793 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Author : Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228003083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire written by Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), hetman of the Zaporozhian Host in what is now Ukraine, is a controversial figure, famous for abandoning his allegiance to Tsar Peter I and joining Charles XII's Swedish army during the Battle of Poltava. Although he is discussed in almost every survey and major book on Russian and Ukrainian history, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire is the first English-language biography of the hetman in sixty years. A translation and revision of Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva's 2007 Russian-language book, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire presents an updated perspective. This account is based on many new sources, including Mazepa's archive - thought lost for centuries before it was rediscovered by the author in 2004 - and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian historiography. Focusing on this fresh material, Tairova-Yakovleva delivers a more nuanced and balanced account of the polarizing figure who has been simultaneously demonized in Russia as a traitor and revered in Ukraine as the defender of independence. Chapters on economic reform, Mazepa's impact on the rise to power of Peter I, his cultural achievements, and the reasons he switched his allegiance from Peter to Charles integrate a larger array of issues and personalities than have previously been explored. Setting a standard for the next generation of historians, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire reveals an original picture of the Hetmanate during a moment of critical importance for the Russian Empire and Ukraine.
