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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 …
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 …
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 …
French Finances 1770–1795
The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, …
The Changing Face of Empire
Using a vast range of primary sources, this substantial and important volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the division and near-collapse of Habsburg authority during the …
The Princes of Orange
This major study provides the first comprehensive assessment of an important European institution, the Stadholderate of the Dutch Republic. Professor Rowen looks at the career of …
The Emperor and His Chancellor
This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles …
Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529–1819
The emergence of religious toleration was one of the main features of the development of Western society after the Reformation. While previous research has concentrated largely on …