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Author : Edgars Dunsdorfs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Livonian Estates of Axel Oxenstierna written by Edgars Dunsdorfs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heikki Pihlajamäki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004331530
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710) written by Heikki Pihlajamäki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law in seventeenth-century Livonia, conquered by Sweden. The volume demonstrates how the differences in legal cultures affected the Livonian judiciary and legal procedure in the region.
Author : Robert von Friedeburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108248799
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Monarchy Transformed written by Robert von Friedeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise and even advancement through new channels that the governing dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy.
Author : David Eltis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521840686
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 written by David Eltis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317902149
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period written by David Kirby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a sequence of books which explores the history of The Baltic World and Northern Europe. In this period, Sweden was a major European power, occupying a central position in international politics. Her rise and decline, and the passing of regional hegemony to the new powers of Russia and Prussia, are central features in the book. Dr Kirby describes the evolving social and political systems of the principal Baltic states of the time, he gives the key events and processes in European history a new interest and freshness by showing them from the unfamiliar perspective of the northern world.
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 : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817993030
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Latvians written by Andrejs Plakans and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This postperestroika historical narrative should contribute significantly to assessing the likelihood of Latvia's survival as an independent republic."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lennart Bes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047432517
Total Pages : 2408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Baltic Connections (3 vols.) written by Lennart Bes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 2408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.
Author : Aldis Purs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102218
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Latvia written by Aldis Purs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latvia is located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. After a brief period of independence between the two World Wars, Latvia was annexed by the USSR in 1940. It reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994. Latvia continues to revamp its economy for eventual integration into various Western European political and economic institutions. Since May 2004 Latvia is a member of the European Union. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Latvia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Latvia.
Author : Elisabeth Elgán
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442250712
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Sweden written by Elisabeth Elgán and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweden’s transformation in the last century was brought about not by the military prowess of exceptional Swedes (indeed neutrality has been a key element in Swedish policy for almost two centuries) but by the creative ability of its people. Sweden has emerged as a model welfare state and a well-ordered democracy, to which economists, sociologists, feminists, architects, and scientists from sophisticated nations have paid study visits. Sweden now depends on international trade to preserve its high standard of living and, in a world of harsh international competition, often has to struggle to maintain its welfare system and its reputation. Despite its present difficulties, however, it remains one of the world’s most advanced and affluent democracies. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Sweden contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section with more than 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sweden.
Author : Michael Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278898
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)
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.
Author : Elias Bredsdorff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scandinavica written by Elias Bredsdorff and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kryk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442248262
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Stagg vs. Yost written by John Kryk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State’s Joe Paterno to Ohio State’s Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don’t always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college football was ever more emblematic of this than the early 1900s, a time when coaches worked the system with merciless flair to recruit the best players and then keep them eligible to play, even while other coaches were trying to steal already-enrolled players from rival universities. Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan were no exception, and their bitter rivalry is one for the ages. In Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football, John Kryk brings to life a story that is both timeless and familiar to all football fans, indeed to all sports fans: one man’s obsession to end the pain of a long losing streak to a hated rival. This is the story of how Amos Alonzo Stagg covertly punted many of the principles he espoused in order to dismantle one of the most powerful machines the game has known—Fielding Yost’s Michigan Wolverines. Kryk reveals the extent to which Stagg schemed to achieve victory against the “Point a Minute” Wolverines and the lengths Yost went to prevent that from happening. In addition, this book provides insight into college athletics’ corruption as a whole during this time, from under-the-table payments to recruits to contracted loans from wealthy boosters—and why the current NCAA rulebook contains page after page of recruiting and eligibility regulations. Featuring never-before-published internal correspondences of UM athletic leaders, Stagg’s surviving letters and notes, and reports from newspapers of the day, Stagg vs. Yost brings fresh insight into two legends of college football who would do almost anything to win. This book is a noteworthy and fascinating narrative for football fans, historians, and anyone interested in seeing where cutthroat college recruiting and coaching all began.
Author : Simonetta Cavaciocchi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8866555614
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Schiavitù e servaggio nell’economia europea. Secc. XI-XVIII = Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy written by Simonetta Cavaciocchi and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il volume esamina i rapporti di lavoro non contrattuali (schiavitù e servaggio) che a lungo contraddistinsero l'economia europea, sia pure con andamenti assai diversi nelle differenti aree. I saggi in esso contenuti esaminano la evoluzione del servaggio (visto come il lato economico del regime signorile) e delle diverse forme di sottomissione personale, fino alla vera e propria tratta degli schiavi, di cui i mercanti europei furono protagonisti, mettendo in luce una situazione assai più complessa e articolata di quanto gli schemi interpretativi tradizionali lasciassero intuire.
Author : Inese A. Smith
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Baltic States written by Inese A. Smith and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irene Scobbie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810872188
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The a to Z of Sweden written by Irene Scobbie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more than a century afterwards it was a force to be reckoned with. At its peak, it was twice the size that it is today, but with the secession of Finland in 1809 and the rise of Russia, Sweden changed its path and instead turned toward neutrality and a peaceful existence. Today, Sweden boasts a healthy economy, and it is an important member of the European Union, as well a major contributor to international activities. The A to Z of Sweden relates the history of Sweden through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, and institutions, this dictionary provides information ranging from politics to economics, from education to religion, and from music to literature.
