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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Grosjean Alexia"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 / / Alexia Grosjean"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-46776-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786610467761"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4237-1429-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"90-474-0253-7"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (323 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"The Northern World ; ; 5"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"327.4110485/09/031"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Diplomatic relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- List of Figures -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Pt. 1 Scotland and Sweden -- Ch. 1 Scotland and the rise of Sweden, 1521-1613 -- Ch. 2 Gustav II Adolf and the Scots, 1613-1629 -- Ch. 3 The Scots in Swedish service, from Stralsund to Westphalia -- Ch. 4 Scots in the Swedish navy, 1534-1654 -- Ch. 5 The influx and influence of Scotsmen in the Swedish nobility and civic society -- Pt. 2 Sweden and Scotland -- Ch. 6 The unofficial alliance reciprocated: Sweden and the Bishops' Wars, 1638-1640 -- Ch. 7 Sweden and the war for the Three Kingdoms, 1641-1648 -- Ch. 8 Queen Kristina and Charles II, 1649-1651 -- Conclusion: England and the demise of the Scottish-Swedish alliance, 1651-1654 -- Bibliography -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and economic growth, which in turn necessitated a constant supply of manpower. The initially piecemeal migration of private individuals from Scotland bringing both martial and mercantile skills to Sweden gradually grew into an informal "]
[{"$nulls":4},"alliance, albeit officially sanctioned by the Swedes, based on personal networks. Equally the impact of Sweden's support for the Scottish Covenanting movement on British state-formation is scrutinized. This fresh perspective on Scottish-Swedish connections is aimed at those interested in state-formation, migration studies, diplomatic developments, and military history."]