Hakutulokset: Sarja CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY
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Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660–1697
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 …
After the Deluge
The Swedish invasion of 1655, known to Poles ever since as the ‘Swedish deluge’, provoked the political and military collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the …
War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793
This book provides a radical new interpretation of the aims of the lesser German princes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the example of the duchy of …
From Madrid to Purgatory
This book reveals the workings of a culture that cherished death, and invested its resources in the pursuit of heaven. In sixteenth-century Spain, the social and economic debts of …
The King's Army
Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the conflicts as aimless or hopelessly …
The Other Prussia
This book considers the phenomenon of nation-building before the age of modern nationalism. It focuses on royal (Polish) Prussia - the ‘other’ Prussia - a province of the …
Filippo Strozzi and the Medici
Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life.
Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
Why was Louis XIV successful in pacifying the same aristocrats who had caused so much trouble for Richelieu and Mazarin? What role did absolutism play in reinforming or changing …
Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion
Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars …
Old World and the New 1492-1650
Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War
This stylish and highly entertaining account of the origins of the Franco-Dutch War of 1672.
The Armada of Flanders
The Flanders armada, took shape in response to the use of seapower by the Dutch rebels, and evolved into the most effective unit in Spain’s defence establishment. In combination …