An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 write by Alexia Grosjean. This book was released on 2003-08-01. An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and economic growth, which in turn necessitated a constant supply of manpower. The initially piecemeal migration of private individuals from Scotland bringing both martial and mercantile skills to Sweden gradually grew into an informal alliance, albeit officially sanctioned by the Swedes, based on personal networks. Equally the impact of Sweden's support for the Scottish Covenanting movement on British state-formation is scrutinized. This fresh perspective on Scottish-Swedish connections is aimed at those interested in state-formation, migration studies, diplomatic developments, and military history.
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century write by Adam Grimshaw. This book was released on 2023-10-09. Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first study to analyse the relationship between England and Sweden across the entire seventeenth century. It emphasises the importance of commerce and diplomacy working in tandem. The book contains five chapters arranged chronologically, all based on original and innovative archival research, and traces the economic aspects of the relationship in both a qualitative and quantitative context. It draws upon a number of unique incidents to detail the variety and extent of commercial and diplomatic connections that became of primary importance for the welfare and success of both nations over the century.
British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688
British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 write by David Worthington. This book was released on 2010-01-15. British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. Divided into four sections - 'Immigrants and Civilian Life', 'Diplomats and Travellers', 'Protestants and Patrons' and 'Catholics at Home and Abroad' - it offers a new perspective on several themes. Contributors elucidate networks of traders, soldiers, as well as scholars and religious figures. Material regarding patterns of residence (sometimes of the nature of an enclave, sometimes not), places of worship, choice of marital partners, and cases of return migration, is presented, the results demonstrating clearly the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenth-century British and Irish history. Contributors are Waldemar Kowalski, Peter Davidson, Douglas Catterall, Steve Murdoch, Ciaran O’Scea, Éamon Ó Ciosáin, Igor Pérez Tostado, Kathrin Zickermann, Barry Robertson, Siobhan Talbott, Polona Vidmar, David J.B. Trim, Tom McInally, Thomas O’Connor and Caroline Bowden.
Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe
Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe write by Peter Edwards. This book was released on 2024-02-26. Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch’s rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive estates. While monarchs wanted to perpetuate a system in which they could watch over members of the regional elite at court and keep them busy, they sought to make use of them as local and provincial administrators, that is, as long as they remained loyal: a fraught balancing act. Contributors include: Hélder Carvalhal, Peter Edwards, Jemma Field, Cailean Gallagher, Pedro José Herades-Ruiz, Graeme S. Millen, Vita Malašinskiené, Tibor Monostori, Steve Murdoch, David Potter, Peter S. Roberts, Irene Maria Vicente-Martin, and Matthias Wong.
An Apprenticeship in Arms
An Apprenticeship in Arms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Apprenticeship in Arms write by Roger B. Manning. This book was released on 2006-05-25. An Apprenticeship in Arms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, An Apprenticeship in Arms is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe, as well as the ordinary men who were impressed to serve in the ranks from the time of the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. Thisapprenticeship in arms exposed these men to the technological innovations of the military revolution, laid the foundations for a fledgling professional officer class based upon merit and established a fund of military expertise. This remilitarization of aristocratic culture and society was completed by 1640, andprovided numerous experienced military officers for the various armies of the civil wars and, subsequently, for the embryonic British army after William III invaded and conquered the British Isles and committed the Three Kingdoms to the armed struggle against Louis XIV during the Nine Years War.Conflicts between amateur aristocrats and so-called 'soldiers of fortune' led to continuing debates about the relative merits of standing armies and a select militia; the individual pursuit of honour and glory by such amateurs also obscured the more rational military and political objectives of the modern state, subverted military discipline, and delayed the process of the professionalization of the officer corps of the British army.
