Warrior Kings of Sweden
Subtitle: The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: March 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780786428731
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - Scandinavia; History / Ancient History; Modern - 16th Century; 17th century; History, Military; Kings and rulers; Politics and government; Sweden
Description: "This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718), warrior-kings who governed, chronologically describes political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion. It traces history through Sweden's rulers and documents cultural flowering in arts and sciences and personalities that drove Sweden's cultural progress"--Provided by publisher.