Table of Contents

1. Setting the Scene 2. The Baltic World in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century 3. The Struggle for Livonia (1558-95) 4. The Time of Troubles (1595-1617) 5. The Baltic During the Thirty Years War (1618-48) 6. The First Great Northern War (1648-67) 7. The Later Seventeenth Century (1667-1700) 8. Charles XII, Peter the Great and the End of Swedish Dominance (1700-21) 9. A New Balance (1721-51) 10. Mid-Century Crises (1750-72) 11. The Age of Gustavus III (1772-90) Postlude The Baltic in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1790-1815) Epilogue The Baltic in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

About the Author

Stewart P. Oakley

Reviews

`... a first-rate work that is a valuable addition to the literature on the early modern Baltic.' - Jeremy Black European History Quarterly

`... undergraduates will welcome a book which has so clearly distilled general accounts in several languages into one volume,' - Slavonic Review

`... presents a clear, reliable and solidly informed account of a complex subject, with which most of his readers will be wholly unfamiliar. This book will be a valuable tool for all teachers and students of early modern European History.' - History