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Shifting Regimes : Political Disruption and Change in Early Modern Sweden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hallenberg, Mats.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sweden--Politics and government.
- Sweden.
- Sweden--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lund, Sweden Kriterium 2025
- Havertown : Nordic Academic Press, Sweden, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book deals with six critical junctions in early modern Sweden between 1538 and 1810.It highlights intense periods of change when a prevailing system of government was challenged and replaced by something radically different - a new political regime.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abstract
- Sweden's rulers
- Timeline
- Preface
- 1. Disruption and change: An alternative history of early modern Sweden
- 2. A national monarchy: The introduction of princely rule, 1538-1544
- 3. Aristocratic interventions: The making of bureaucratic government, 1617-1626
- 4. War and peace: The making of royal autocracy, 1675-1683
- 5. The Estates take over the state: The introduction of parliamentary government, 1718-1723
- 6. The return of the king: Royal autocracy revisited, 1765-1772
- 7. A separation of powers: Modelling mixed government, 1809-1810
- 8. The dynamics of shifting regimes: State formation and democratization
- Notes
- References
- About the authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 91-89936-24-8
- 91-89936-23-X
- OCLC:
- 1535402025
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