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Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 by : Robert Nisbet Bain
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 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Swedish Empire by : Hourly History
Download or read book The Swedish Empire written by Hourly History and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable history of the Swedish Empire...When historians discuss the great European empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Sweden is sometimes not included in their conversations. Despite this omission, Sweden amassed a wealthy, prosperous empire during these years. Their territory spanned several regions of Europe and even included colonies in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. They defeated some of the greatest militaries of their time and were widely recognized around the world by their allies and adversaries alike as an immense power and threat. The age of the Swedish Empire also left a powerful impact on Swedish history well into the twentieth century and even to the present day. Discover a plethora of topics such as The Age of the Vikings and Beyond The Emergence of the Swedish Empire Sweden in North America and the World The Swedish Revolution and Charles XI The Great Northern War The Birth of Modern Sweden And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Swedish Empire, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Download or read book Charles XII written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire by : Patrik Nilsson
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire written by Patrik Nilsson and published by Eken Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1560 and 1721, the Swedes endeavored to turn the Baltic Sea into a Swedish lake. Generations of young men perished in a seemingly endless series of wars. How was it possible for an insignificant country on the outskirts of Europe, with small cities and a scant population, to develop into a great power? Convinced that God was on their side, the army marched across the ice of a frozen sea to take the enemy by surprise. They challenged continental Europe’s greatest generals on the battlefield. In the end, the enemy’s superior numbers proved too great, and over one hundred years of empire building culminated in a long, desperate final battle.
Book Synopsis Sweden in the Seventeenth Century by : Paul Lockhart
Download or read book Sweden in the Seventeenth Century written by Paul Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe. Little more than a century after achieving independence from Denmark, Sweden - an impoverished and sparsely-populated state - had defeated all of its most fearsome enemies and was ranked amongst the great powers of Europe. In this book, which incorporates the latest research on the subject, Paul Douglas Lockhart: - Surveys the political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural history of the country, from the beginnings of its career as an empire to its decline at the end of the seventeenth century - Examines the mechanisms that helped Sweden to achieve the status of a great power, and the reasons for its eventual downfall - Emphasises the interplay between social structure, constitutional development, and military necessity Clear and well-written, Lockhart's text is essential reading for all those with an interest in the fascinating history of early modern Sweden.
Book Synopsis Order, Materiality and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden by : Riitta Laitinen
Download or read book Order, Materiality and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden written by Riitta Laitinen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Map 1 - Map of seventeenth-century Turku with the toll fence, toll gates and the roads leading from the countryside to the market place -- Map 2 - The surroundings of Turku and the 1530 border of land owned by the town -- Map 3 - The earliest map of Turku is from 1634 and it is based on a survey by Olof Gangius. This copy was moved from Sweden to Finland aroun1809, when the text to the upper right corner was added. -- Illustration 1 - Depiction of seventeenth-century wooden houses in Turku with their yards, based on some archaeological research and written sources
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire by : Patrik Nilsson
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire written by Patrik Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 by : Michael Roberts
Download or read book The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 written by Michael Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a militarized society? What importance had official propaganda and national myths? Did the constitutional situation help to make an expansionist foreign policy easier? The structure of the empire is next examined: its administration, the ties that held it together, the differing interests of the provinces, the varying responses of the metropolitan power was there, in fact, anything deserving the name of an imperial policy? How did the provinces view the Swedish connexion? In a final chapter the author tries to answer the question why, if Sweden could acquire an empire without undue strain, she could not retain it; why the collapse was so rapid and so total; and whether her career as a great power had real relevance to the country's subsequent history. On almost all these topics little information is available in English, and no comparable treatment of them on this scale exists in any language.
Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire by : R. Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire is a history of the famous Swedish monarch and the Great Northern War.
Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 by : Robert Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 written by Robert Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Warrior Kings of Sweden by : Gary Dean Peterson
Download or read book Warrior Kings of Sweden written by Gary Dean Peterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms and scholarship. This book fills a large void in European history as it is generally presented to the American student and reader. This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718) and the warrior-kings who governed that age. It chronologically describes the political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion, including the exploration and colonization of the New World. The story traces history through the reigns of Sweden's ambitious rulers, beginning with the presumably Swedish Goths who ravaged the Roman Empire in the 2nd century CE and continuing through the end of the empire in the early eighteenth century. A thorough epilogue documents the cultural flowering in the arts and sciences that commenced in the Age of Greatness and continued to blossom in the centuries that followed. This final section of the book pays special attention to the personalities that drove Sweden's far-reaching cultural progress.
Book Synopsis Charles Xii and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 by : Robert Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles Xii and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 written by Robert Nisbet Bain and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. SWEDEN AND EUROPE, FROM THE BATTLE OF GADEBUSCH TO THE FALL OF STRALSUND. 1712-1715. Necessity for Sweden to surrender something--Obstinacy of Charles --Rejects the mediation of England--And the offer of the alliance of Prussia--Movements of Stenbock after Gadebusch-- The burning of Altona--Surrender of the Swedes at Tonning-- Last sufferings and death of Stenbock--Desperate position of Sweden--Finland lost--Stettin occupied--Charles refuses the mediation of Louis XIV.--Despair of the Swedish Senate--A Riksdag summoned--Condition of the finances--Dissatisfaction of the Estates--Their revolutionary projects--Ambiguous conduct of the Princess Ulrica--Energetic intervention of Chancellor Horn--Return of Charles XII.--Enthusiasm in Sweden-- Fresh complications--Prussia and Hanover declare war against Charles--The siege of Stralsund--Engagement of Stresow-- Fruitless heroism of the King--Fall of Stralsund. I[IE battle of Gadebusch materially improved the position of Sweden, at least for a time, and indeed during the whole course of 1712 she had several opportunities of coming to terms with her numerous foes on relatively favourable conditions, considering her really desperate position. But by this time it had become evident to her wisest and most patriotic statesmen that something must be sacrificed. After a century of almost unbroken triumphs and conquests, Sweden found herself face to face with the painful necessity of surrendering part of her dominions in order to save the rest. She had to choose between an indispensable peace that could only be purchased by a cession of territory, and a ruinous war with the prospect of still greater losses. It was manifestly impossible that she could stand much longer against a European...
Book Synopsis Charles XII, and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire by : Robert Nisbet Bain
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 1902 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire 1682-1719 by : R. Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire 1682-1719 written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 by : R. Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 written by R. Nisbet Bain and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis A Warrior Dynasty by : Henrik O. Lunde
Download or read book A Warrior Dynasty written by Henrik O. Lunde and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia. A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent. That Sweden achieved this was due to its leadershipa case-study in history when pure military skill, and that alone, could override the demographic and economic factors which have in modern times been termed so pre-eminent. Once Protestantism emerged, via Martin Luther, the most devastating war in European history ensued, as the Holy Roman Empire sought to resassert its authority by force. Into this bloody maelstrom stepped Gustav Adolf of Sweden, a brilliant tactician and strategist, who with his finely honed Swedish legions proceeded to establish a new authority in northern Europe. Gustav, as brave as he was brilliant, was finally killed while leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Lützen. He had innovated, however, tactics and weaponry that put his successors in good stead, as Sweden remained a great power, rivaled only by France and Spain in terms of territory in Europe. And then one of his successors, Karl XII, turned out to be just as great a military genius as Gustav himself, and as the year 1700 arrived, Swedish armies once more burst out in all directions. Karl, like Gustav, assumed the throne while still a teenager, but immediately displayed so much acumen, daring and skill that chroniclers could only compare him, like Gustav, to Alexander the Great. This book examines thoroughly, yet in highly readable fashion, the century during which Swedish military power set an example for all Europe. While the Continent was most visibly divided along religious linesCatholic versus Protestantgeopolitical motives always underlied the conflicts. Swedens reliance on its military skill was especially noteworthy, as it veritably founded the modern concept of making wars pay through conquest. Karl XII finally let his ambitions lead him too far, as did Napoleon and Hitler in following centuries, into the vastness of the nascent Russian Empire, where he was finally defeated, at Poltava in Ukraine. Thus the period of Swedish supremacy in Europe came to a close, albeit not without leaving important lessons behind. In this work, by renowned author Henrik O. Lunde, these are clearly to be seen.
Book Synopsis Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 (Classic Reprint) by : Robert Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Nisbet Bain and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 was written by Robert Nisbet Bain. This is a 399 page book, containing 91682 words and 55 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
