An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 / / Alexia Grosjean.
This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and econo...
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| Superior document: | The Northern World ; 5 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Northern World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Conventions
- List of Figures
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Illustrations and Maps
- Introduction
- Pt. 1 Scotland and Sweden
- Ch. 1 Scotland and the rise of Sweden, 1521-1613
- Ch. 2 Gustav II Adolf and the Scots, 1613-1629
- Ch. 3 The Scots in Swedish service, from Stralsund to Westphalia
- Ch. 4 Scots in the Swedish navy, 1534-1654
- Ch. 5 The influx and influence of Scotsmen in the Swedish nobility and civic society
- Pt. 2 Sweden and Scotland
- Ch. 6 The unofficial alliance reciprocated: Sweden and the Bishops' Wars, 1638-1640
- Ch. 7 Sweden and the war for the Three Kingdoms, 1641-1648
- Ch. 8 Queen Kristina and Charles II, 1649-1651
- Conclusion: England and the demise of the Scottish-Swedish alliance, 1651-1654
- Bibliography
- Index.