Charles XII

Charles XII

Author: John Hattendorf

Publisher: Protagonists of History in International Perspective

Published: 2019-03

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9789490258191

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For centuries, Charles XII has mainly been seen in the context of Sweden's national experience, yet his activities stretched across the European continent from Russia and Denmark to Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, and the Ottoman Empire. Even the Dutch Republic, Britain, and France became involved diplomatically and economically. In this volume, 20 scholars from 12 different countries contribute to creating a broader perspective on Charles XII and the Great Northern War in European history. The contributors to this volume expand the scope of international research on Charles XII and his time by examining not only his victories and defeats but the king's impact in other areas as well.


By Defeating My Enemies

By Defeating My Enemies

Author: Michael Glaeser

Publisher: Century of the Soldier

Published: 2020-10-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781913336462

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By Defeating My Enemies looks at the life and reign of Charles XII of Sweden and provides context and reassessment of his military career in the Great Northern War.


Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697

Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697

Author: Anthony F. Upton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-06-04

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521573900

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The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.


Poltava 1709

Poltava 1709

Author: Serhii Plokhy

Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932650099

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In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered scholars from around the globe and from various fields of study to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. This collection of their papers provides a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the legacies of the battle's major players.