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The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721
by Robert I. Frost
- HISTORY
- 2000
- PAPER
- 401 PAGES
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An illuminating, scholarly history of the struggle over Estonia, Livonia and control of the Nordic-Baltic region by Sweden, Prussia, and Russia. Frost covers the heavily militarized period between the 16th-century takeover of the Baltic empires of the knights of the Teutonic order and the 18th century, when mighty Poland-Lithuania was devoured by its neighbors. Largely ignored today as a historical power, the flow of Polish-Lithuanian grain, timber, hemp and pitch through the Baltic provided vital raw materials for the European economy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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