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Gustavas Adolphus Michael Roberts (University of South Australia, Bedford Park)

Gustavas Adolphus By Michael Roberts (University of South Australia, Bedford Park)

Summary

Aimed primarily at undergraduates, this text examines the reign of Gustavus Adolphus and his chancellor Oxenstierna in 17th century Sweden. Adolphus was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War and was a great administrator and soldier.

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Gustavas Adolphus Summary

Gustavas Adolphus by Michael Roberts (University of South Australia, Bedford Park)

Gustavus Adolphus (1594--1632) dominated his age: he made Sweden the leading power of Northern Europe, was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War, and was a great administrator as well as a brilliant soldier. His toleration and reforms helped define the development of the modern state. This concise study of his career, by the doyen of modern historians of the North, appeared in 1973. Long unavailable but now revised, expanded, updated and reset, it makes a welcome return in Profiles in Power.

Table of Contents

List of maps. 1. Background. 2. The accession of crisis and its consequences. 3. Recovery 1612-20. 4. Poland and the protestant cause 1620-28. 5. The great decision 1628-30. 6. Reforms: domestic. 7. Reforms: naval and military. 8. The sinews of war. 9. The path to the summit. 10. The plentitude of power. 11. Finale. 12. Prospect and retrospect. Bibliographical essay. List of dates. Maps. Index.

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CIN0582090008G
9780582090002
0582090008
Gustavas Adolphus by Michael Roberts (University of South Australia, Bedford Park)
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19920928
224
N/A
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