Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
Jul 10, 2014
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1317895762
ISBN-13
9781317895763
Description
Gustavus Adolphus (1594--1632) dominated his age: he made Sweden the leading power of Northern Europe, was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War, and was a great administrator as well as a brilliant soldier. His toleration and reforms helped define the development of the modern state. This concise study of his career, by the doyen of modern historians of the North, appeared in 1973. Long unavailable but now revised, expanded, updated and reset, it makes a welcome return in Profiles in Power.
Genres
Action & Adventure