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The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718
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The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 Paperback - 1984

by Michael Roberts

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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 consititutional 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.

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THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES saw the foundation of those great modern empires in whose liquidation it has been our dubious destiny to acquiesce: the empires of Portugal, of Spain, of the Dutch, of England, and of France.

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  • Title The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718
  • Author Michael Roberts
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 172
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1984-03-08
  • Features Maps
  • ISBN 9780521278898 / 0521278899
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.1 x 0.45 in (22.91 x 15.49 x 1.14 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 78058799
  • Dewey Decimal Code 948.502

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