"This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718), warrior-kings who governed, chronologically describes political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion. It trac…
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For 100 years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. This book covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718) and the warrior-kings who governed that age. It des…
"This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718), warrior-kings who governed, chronologically describes political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion. It trac…
"This narrative covers Sweden's Age of Greatness (1632-1718), warrior-kings who governed, chronologically describes political and religious events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and reveals how these events produced the climate for European global expansion. It trac…
This title follows the development of pike and shot weapons through the 17th-century wars of religion and dynasty. As well as looking at the development of the weapons themselves it studies how infantry and cavalry tactics had to be improved and developed to counter the new thre…
"Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving all of the major powers. This was therefore a key period in the development of 'modern' infantry tactics, such as the use of pole-arms a…
This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word 'piracy' as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obs…
This text provides a detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. Through the use of letters of marque and reprisal as well as dedicated Crown fleets, Scottish warfare against a wide range of enemies are scrutinized.
