Titlebook: Sweden in the Seventeenth Century; Paul Douglas Lockhart Textbook 2004Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004

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n the Swedish language. Focuses on the rise and decline of SThe history of Sweden in the seventeenth century is perhaps one of the most remarkable political success stories of early modern Europe.Little more than a century after achieving independence from Denmark, Sweden - an impoverished and spars

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The Sixteenth-Century Inheritance,ction between what constitutes a ‘major power’ and what makes a major power ‘great’ is necessarily subjective, but given the weight of Sweden’s international influence between 1632 and 1660 it seems fair to rank Sweden among the great powers of Europe.

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,The Interregnum and Queen Christina, 1632–54,d the passing of his old rival, it gave him the opportunity he craved to recreate a Danish imperium in the Lower Saxon Circle of the empire. Fortunately, Gustav Adolf had trained highly skilled subordinates, both civil and military, who would manage to keep the faltering military effort from falling