| The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden 1523 1611 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Roberts, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521311829 ISBN-13: 9780521311823 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1986 Annotation: This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Scandinavia - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 948.502 |
| Series: Cambridge Paperback Library |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6" W x 9" (1.70 lbs) 532 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. It is now available in paperback for the first time. The book includes a full account of the reign of Gustav Vasa (1523-60), one of the greatest rulers of his age, and of the half-century after his death that paved the way for Sweden's emergence as a great power. Professor Roberts provides an account of the course of the Swedish Reformation: he analyses those trans-Baltic entanglements which were to assume such importance, both for Sweden and for Europe, in the next century; and he pays particular attention to the constitutional controversies which reached their climax, though not their end, with the deposition of King Sigismund and the 'Bloodbath of Link ping'. |
