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  • Mercenary Swedes

    French Subsidies to Sweden 1631-1796

    by Svante Norrhem ...
    Four hundred years ago, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against Germany in the war between Protestant and Catholic states. Rather than some lofty purpose, what convinced Sweden was money. Under the 1631 agreement, Sweden received French subsidies to the tune of 400,000 riksdaler a year for five years. This was only the first in a long line of subsidy agreements between the countries. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flattering Alliances

    Scandinavia, Diplomacy and the Austrian-French Balance of Power, 1648–1740

    by Peter Lindström, Svante Norrhem ...
    Taking a fresh look at the history of diplomacy, this book looks at the fight for hegemony between France and Austria after the Peace of Westphalia 1648, showing how their clashes dragged the Scandinavian kingdoms into European top-level politics and forced them to take part in the play, constantly negotiating risks and profits. Historians Peter Lindström and Svante Norrhem discuss how the Great ... Read more

    $29.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

    Edited by James Daybell, Svante Norrhem ...
    Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Mercenary Swedes: French Subsidies to Sweden 1631–1796

    by Svante Norrhem ...
    In the 1630s, France persuaded Sweden to fight on its side against the Holy Roman Emperor in the vicious, prolonged war between Protestant and Catholic states. The 1631 agreement was the first in a long line of deals between France and Sweden until 1796, which meant 166 years of intermittent support. In some years French subsidies amounted to a startling 20 per cent of the Swedish national budget. ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Serving Aristocracy

    Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community

    by Anna Nilsson Hammar, Svante Norrhem ...
    Series series Knowledge Societies in History
    Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden.Focusing on underprivileged women and men and the knowledge community that shaped their interactions, social negotiations, and mobility, this book documents ordinary people ... Read more

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