Essays about: "Axel Oxenstierna"

Found 2 essays containing the words Axel Oxenstierna.

1. 1. Thinking outside the Baltic : Swedish ambitions in Norway at the height of the Great Power Era

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Elias Norgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Swedish Empire; Denmark-Norway; Baltic Sea; Axel Oxenstierna; state formation; geopolitics; commerce; early modern nationalism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine the seldom researched Swedish geopolitical interests inNorway in the first half of the 17th century, with the brief 1658 conquest of Trondheim as itscentral event of inquiry. Through the study of privy council protocols and chancellor AxelOxenstierna’s correspondence, the study builds a case for the confluence of security, commerce, andthe concepts of nations as the influencing factors that shaped Swedish imperial foreign policy in thedecades leading up to the dramatic war of 1658, yielding a theoretical construction of the Empire’sBaltic doctrine, or the Oxenstierna doctrine, as an explanatory model for Sweden’s early modernexpansion patterns. READ MORE

3. 2. Representing a Nation of Tailors and Cobblers : A Study of Bulstrode Whitelocke´s Journal of the Swedish Embassy, 1653-1654

   University essay from Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Author : Rebecca Martin; [2007]
   Keywords : Bulstrode Whitelocke 1605-1675; Queen Christina of Sweden 1626-1689; Axel Oxenstierna 1583-1654; Diary; Diplomacy; English Civil War; Seventeenth Century Political Theory.;

   Abstract : In November 1653, a vessel arrived in the harbour town of Gothenburg, on the west coast of the Protestant monarchy of Sweden. Aboard the ship was the newly appointed English Ambassador Extraordinary, Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-1675); jurist, Puritan and avid diary keeper. READ MORE