Swedish Imperial Experience 1560 - 1718 Roberts Michael
Swedish Imperial Experience 1560 - 1718 Roberts Michael In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to…
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Swedish Imperial Experience 1560 - 1718 Roberts Michael
In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic?
What importance had official propaganda and national myths? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a militarized society? Did the consititutional situation help to make an expansionist foreign policy easier?
The structure of the empire is next examined: its administration, the ties that held it together, the differing interests of the provinces, the varying responses of the metropolitan power was there, in fact, anything deserving the name of an imperial policy? How did the provinces