Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The History of Charles XII, King of Sweden
Author: VoltaireHistory of Charles XII
Author: VoltaireCharles XII
Author: John HattendorfPublisher: Protagonists of History in International Perspective
ISBN: 9789490258191
Category : Europe, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
The History of Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden
Author: VoltaireCharles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719
Author: Robert Nisbet BainPublisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
By Defeating My Enemies
Author: Michael GlaeserPublisher: Century of the Soldier
ISBN: 9781913336462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Charles XII of Sweden
Author: Ragnhild Marie HattonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
Author: Anthony F. UptonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521573900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
The History of Charles XII. King of Sweden
Author: VoltairePoltava 1709
Author: Serhii PlokhyPublisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
ISBN: 9781932650099
Category : Poltava (Ukraine), Battle of, 1709
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.