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.
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`... a first-rate work that is a valuable addition to the literature on the early modern Baltic.' - Jeremy Black European History Quarterly
`... undergraduates will welcome a book which has so clearly distilled general accounts in several languages into one volume,' - Slavonic Review
`... presents a clear, reliable and solidly informed account of a complex subject, with which most of his readers will be wholly unfamiliar. This book will be a valuable tool for all teachers and students of early modern European History.' - History
`... undergraduates will welcome a book which has so clearly distilled general accounts in several languages into one volume,' - Slavonic Review
`... presents a clear, reliable and solidly informed account of a complex subject, with which most of his readers will be wholly unfamiliar. This book will be a valuable tool for all teachers and students of early modern European History.' - History
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Stewart P. Oakley is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of East Anglia.
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The Baltic, like the much larger Mediterranean, of which it is in many ways northern Europe's equivalent, is almost an inland sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subsidy treaty, galley fleet, northern war, high seas fleet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Prussia, Frederick William, United Provinces, King Christian, King Sigismund, King Frederik, Adolf Fredrik, Gulf of Finland, Frederick of Prussia, Gustavus Adolphus, Sound Dues, King Frederick, King Gustavus, Secret Committee, Tsar Peter, Great Northern War, John Casimir, King John, Thirty Years War, Elector of Brandenburg, Grand Master, Seven Years War, Gulf of Bothnia, North Sea, Peter the Great New!
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The Baltic, like the much larger Mediterranean, of which it is in many ways northern Europe's equivalent, is almost an inland sea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subsidy treaty, galley fleet, northern war, high seas fleet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Prussia, Frederick William, United Provinces, King Christian, King Sigismund, King Frederik, Adolf Fredrik, Gulf of Finland, Frederick of Prussia, Gustavus Adolphus, Sound Dues, King Frederick, King Gustavus, Secret Committee, Tsar Peter, Great Northern War, John Casimir, King John, Thirty Years War, Elector of Brandenburg, Grand Master, Seven Years War, Gulf of Bothnia, North Sea, Peter the Great New!
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- Peter the Great (2nd Edition) by M.S. Anderson on 4 pages
- Gustavus Adolphus (Profiles in Power) by Michael Roberts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (Phoenix Press) by Isabel de Madariaga in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Thirty Years' War by Geoffrey Parker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- King John by John Charles on page 43, and page 85
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- Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles by Maureen Perrie in Back Matter
- The Testimony of Lives: narrative and memory in post-soviet Latvia by Vieda Skultans in Back Matter
- Sweden in the Seventeenth Century (European History in Perspective) by Paul Lockhart in Back Matter
- The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia by Vieda Skultans in Back Matter
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