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Record Nr.

UNINA9911022362003321

Autore

Hallenberg Mats

Titolo

Shifting Regimes : Political Disruption and Change in Early Modern Sweden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden, : Kriterium, 2025

Havertown : , : Nordic Academic Press, Sweden, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

91-89936-24-8

91-89936-23-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LinnarssonMagnus

ScherpJoakim

Disciplina

320.9485

Soggetti

HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions

HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries

HISTORY / Modern / General

Sweden Politics and government

Sweden History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abstract -- Sweden's rulers -- Timeline -- Preface -- 1. Disruption and change: An alternative history of early modern Sweden -- 2. A national monarchy: The introduction of princely rule, 1538-1544 -- 3. Aristocratic interventions: The making of bureaucratic government, 1617-1626 -- 4. War and peace: The making of royal autocracy, 1675-1683 -- 5. The Estates take over the state: The introduction of parliamentary government, 1718-1723 -- 6. The return of the king: Royal autocracy revisited, 1765-1772 -- 7. A separation of powers: Modelling mixed government, 1809-1810 -- 8. The dynamics of shifting regimes: State formation and democratization -- Notes -- References -- About the authors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with six critical junctions in early modern Sweden between 1538 and 1810.It highlights intense periods of change when a



prevailing system of government was challenged and replaced by something radically different - a new political regime.