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Title: |
Revolution From Above? |
| Sub-title: |
The Power State of 16th & 17th Century Scandinavia |
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| Edited by: |
Leon Jaspersen |
| ISBN10-13: |
8778384079 : 9788778384072 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w tables & maps |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
383 |
| Weight: |
.884 Kg. |
| Published: |
Odense University Press (DK) - January 2000 |
| List Price: |
28.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
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| Subjects: |
European history : Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 : Politics & government : Northern Europe, Scandinavia |
| In the 16th and 17th centuries, the states of Europe underwent a series of changes which created the foundation for the state of today. The Nordic countries played their part in that process, but also demonstrated differences relative to each other. Scandinavia appears in this context as an interesting area for study. Three Nordic researchers have analysed some of these changes and their consequences at the level of the state, the region and the local district. During the 16th and 17th centuries the peoples of the Nordic countries experienced a strengthening of state power which imposed upon them increased taxes and other burdens, not least as a result of the frequent wars of the time. Ambitions to appear as a power-state and to try increasingly to regulate society and impose discipline on subjects took the form of an interplay between the power of the state and the local community which exposed the limited ability of the state to insist upon its will. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Foreword; Part I: Introduction - Government and Society in Early Modern Scandinavia, 1560-1721; Part II: The Constitutional and Administrative Situation; Part III: State, Elite and Peasant Power in a Norwegian Region, Bratsberg County, in the 17th Century; Part IV: Adaptation or Protestation: Local Community Facing the Conscription of Infantry for the Swedish Armed Forces, 1620-1679; Part V: Conclusions. |
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