The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718

by Michael Roberts and Michael Roberts

Book Overview

In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521278899
• ISBN13: 9780521278898
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"