The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718
Series: Wiles Lectures
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 27, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780521278898
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Western Europe - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Sweden; Europe - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES saw the foundation of those great modern empires in whose liquidation it has been our dubious destiny to acquiesce: the empires of Portugal, of Spain, of the Dutch, of England, and of France.