War, Power and Resistance: The Rise of the State in Northern Europe, 1500-1815
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA802
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Ailes, Mary Elizabeth, Wars, widows, and state formation in 17th-century Sweden, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2006(31):1, s. 17-34Compulsory
- Braddick, M.J., "The Early Modern English State and the Question of Differentation, from 1550 to 1700": Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1996Compulsory
- Elliot, J.H., "A Europe of Composite Monarchies", Past & Present, 1992Compulsory
- Glete, Jan, War and the state in early modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1600, London, Routledge, 2002Compulsory
- Lindegren, Jan, The Swedish "military state", 1560-1720., Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 1985 (10), s. 305-336 : fig.Compulsory
- Tilly, Charles, "War making and state making as organized crime", in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer & Theda Skocpol (eds), Bringing the state back in, Cambridge, 1985Compulsory
- Dickson, Peter George Muir, The fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Europe: essays in honour of P.G.M.Dickson, Farnham, England, Ashgate, cop. 2009Compulsory
Main group 2
- Munck, Thomas, "Keeping the peace: Good police and civic order in 18th-century Copenhagen, in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2007Compulsory
Main group 3
- Alm, Mikael, Royalty, legitimacy and imagery: the struggles for legitimacy of Gustavian absolutism, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2003(28):1, s. 19-36Compulsory
- Colley, Linda, "The apothesis of George III: Loyalty, royalty and the British nation 1760-1820", in Past & Present, 1984Compulsory
- Knoppers, Laura, Lunger, Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645-1661, Cambridge, 2000Compulsory
- Munck, Thomas, "Absolute Monarchy in later eighteenth-century Denmark: Centralized reform, public expectations and the Copenhagen press", in The Historical Journal, 1998Compulsory
- Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian, "The "Coronations" of Charles XII (1697), Frederick IV (1700) and Frederick III/I (1701), in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2003Compulsory
Main group 4
- Northern revolts: medieval and early modern peasant unrest in the Nordic countries, Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society, 2004Compulsory
- Te Brake, Wayne Ph., Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700, Berkeley, Calif., Univ. of California Press, cop. 1998Compulsory
* Compulsory
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