From Oxenstierna to Charles XII: Four Studies

by Michael Roberts

The spectacular career of Gustav Adolf by no means established Sweden as a great power. In the four years after his death such a development became increasingly improbable. At Westphalia in 1648 the improbable became a fact; but the momentum of Swedish imperial expansion did not culminate until 1658, when Charles X imposed peace upon a prostrate Denmark. The core of this volume of four essays, by the doyen of historians of Sweden, lies in the two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521528615
• ISBN13: 9780521528610
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"