Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: John Hattendorf
Publisher: Protagonists of History in International Perspective
ISBN: 9789490258191
Category : Europe, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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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: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Michael Glaeser
Publisher: Century of the Soldier
ISBN: 9781913336462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :

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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: Ragnhild Marie Hatton
Publisher:
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Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Anthony F. Upton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521573900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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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.