An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13241-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Reihe: The Northern World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosjean, Alexia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Conventions
List of Figures
List of Illustrations and Maps
Illustrations and Maps
Introduction
Pt. 1 Scotland and Sweden
Ch. 1 Scotland and the rise of Sweden, 1521-1613
Ch. 2 Gustav II Adolf and the Scots, 1613-1629
Ch. 3 The Scots in Swedish service, from Stralsund to Westphalia
Ch. 4 Scots in the Swedish navy, 1534-1654
Ch. 5 The influx and influence of Scotsmen in the Swedish nobility and civic society
Pt. 2 Sweden and Scotland
Ch. 6 The unofficial alliance reciprocated: Sweden and the Bishops' Wars, 1638-1640
Ch. 7 Sweden and the war for the Three Kingdoms, 1641-1648
Ch. 8 Queen Kristina and Charles II, 1649-1651
Conclusion: England and the demise of the Scottish-Swedish alliance, 1651-1654
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alexia Grosjean, Ph.D. (1998) in History, University of Aberdeen, is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen. She co-authored the Scotland Scandinavia and Northern Europe database and has published several articles on seventeenth century Scottish-Swedish relations.