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Author:   Jan Glete
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   46
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.598kg
ISBN:  

9789004179165

ISBN 10:   900417916
Pages:   816
Publication Date:   23 November 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface ... xi List of Tables and Diagrams .. xiii Maps .. xv Abbreviations ... xix Terms and Explanations ... xxi 1. Resources, organisational capabilities and control of the sea .. 1 2. The Swedish dynastic state and its navy .. 51 3. Naval operations and control of the Baltic Sea 135 4. Swedish naval administration: Scope, complexity, and structures .. 241 5. Warships and naval strength .. 313 6. Cordage and canvas: Fitting out the navy .. 449 7. Bronze and iron: Swedish naval ordnance ... 505 8. A peasant society at sea: Men, leaders, and provisioning ... 575 9. Conclusion: Power through Organisation .. 645 Appendices 1 List of Swedish warships, 1521–1721 . 675 2 Swedish naval strength, divided in different sizes of warships, 1520–1721 .. 735 Bibliography .... 745 Index .... 771

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Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721 is the great scholarly work that crowns Jan Glete's series of immensely important books and articles on early modern European navies. Sadly, he did not live to see this volume in final form, as it is in many ways his most important major work. This study provides a completely new and convincing reinterpretation of Swedish naval history in the context of Swedish and Scandinavian history, providing the Swedish perspective and the international complement to Martin Bellamy's Christian IV and his Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy, 1596-1648 (2006). At the same time, Glete provides a new and stimulating model and case study in understanding the growth, development, sustainment, and operations of a national navy that is notably different from the model of the rival Atlantic powers and the development of global transoceanic empires. Thus, from a number of different perspectives, it is a work that every serious naval scholar should read and consider with care as a source of stimulating approaches. work that every serious naval scholar should read and consider with care as a source of stimulating approaches. John B. Hattendorf in The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord, 21 (4), 2011, 421-422

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Jan Glete, Ph.D. (1975) in History, Stockholm University, was Professor of History at Stockholm University. He published extensively on economic history, international naval history and early modern European state formation.

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