How Long to Read The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 by Michael Roberts

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Description

In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a militarized society? What importance had official propaganda and national myths? Did the constitutional situation help to make an expansionist foreign policy easier? The structure of the empire is next examined: its administration, the ties that held it together, the differing interests of the provinces, the varying responses of the metropolitan power was there, in fact, anything deserving the name of an imperial policy? How did the provinces view the Swedish connexion? In a final chapter the author tries to answer the question why, if Sweden could acquire an empire without undue strain, she could not retain it; why the collapse was so rapid and so total; and whether her career as a great power had real relevance to the country's subsequent history. On almost all these topics little information is available in English, and no comparable treatment of them on this scale exists in any language.

How long is The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718?

The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 by Michael Roberts is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 aloud.

What Reading Level is The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718?

The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718 is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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