The Northern Wars by Robert I Frost
This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comprehensive history which considers the revolution in military strategy which took place in the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Robert Frost examines the impact of war on the very different social and political systems of Sweden, Denmark, Poland-Lithuania and Russia and he explains why it was Russia that emerged victorious from these wars. Based on extensive primary and secondary research (including much material that is unfamiliar in English) this book makes an important contribution to the debate on military change and political development in early modern Europe.-
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Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) 2005 Distinguished Scholarship Award
"a rare and remarkable synthetic historical work"
Professor CM. Vakareliyska, ESSA
"This important book throws light on some very dark places in European history"
Times Literary SupplementÂ
"a powerfully-argued contribution to the historiography on the evolution of the military state...truly sets an impressive standard"
Slavonic & East European ReviewÂ
"Another volume in a truly splendid series -Modern Wars in perspective- whose serious format and price are pitched at history students but should not put off the intelligent general reader."
BBC HistoryÂ
"a magnificent achievement, learned, perspicacious and judicious...an outstanding contribution"
War in HistoryÂ
"It is an eminently readable, remarkably well-crafted, balanced, and above all else, a most provocative analysis of one of the central processes in the formation of modern Europe"
J.T. Koitlaine, Harvard University
Robert Frost was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Cracow, and London. After teaching for eighteen years at King's College London, he moved in 2004 to the University of Aberdeen, where he currently holds the Burnett Fletcher Chair in History. He is interested in the history of eastern and
northern Europe from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. His principal research interests are in the history of Poland-Lithuania, and in the history of warfare in the early modern period.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582064294 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582064295 |
| Title | The Northern Wars |
| Author | Robert I Frost |
| Series | Modern Wars In Perspective |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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