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Upton, Anthony F. 
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 
281 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-521-53790-4 
Publication Date: June 1998 

Sweden, oscillating in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries between absolute and limited monarchy, has long been an interesting case study in what those different concepts of monarchy actually meant in the context of the times. Anthony Upton, professor emeritus of Scandinavian history at the University of St. An...

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