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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783942403321

Autore

Oakley Stewart P.

Titolo

War and peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790 / / Stewart P. Oakley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-97450-7

1-134-97451-5

1-280-11263-8

0-203-98885-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

War in context

Disciplina

947

947.4

Soggetti

Baltic States History

Europe History 17th century

Europe History 18th century

Europe, Eastern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; THE HOUSE OF VASA; RULERS OF THE BALTIC LANDS 1560-1790; THE BALTIC 1558-1790: A CHRONICLE; INTRODUCTION; 1 SETTING THE SCENE; 2 THE BALTIC WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; 3 THE STRUGGLE FOR LIVONIA (1558-95); 4 THE TIME OF TROUBLES (1595-1617/21); 5 THE BALTIC DURING THE THIRTY YEARS WAR (1618/21-48); 6 THE FIRST GREAT NORTHERN WAR (1648-67); 7 THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1667-1700); 8 CHARLES XII, PETER THE GREAT AND THE END OF SWEDISH DOMINANCE (1700-21); 9 A NEW BALANCE (1721-51)

10 MID-CENTURY CRISES (1750-72)11 THE AGE OF GUSTAVUS III (1772-90); Epilogue THE BALTIC IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS (1790-1815); Postlude THE BALTIC IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES; NOTES AND REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Describes and explains the course of the series of struggles for power among the states surrounding the Baltic between the middle of the



sixteenth and end of the eighteenth century.