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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      March 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511523304
      9780521420082
      9780521544023
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523304
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.525kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.368kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    The Swedish invasion of 1655, known to Poles ever since as the 'Swedish deluge', provoked the political and military collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the second-largest state in Europe. Robert Frost examines the reasons for Poland's fall and the conduct of the war by the Polish government, and addresses the crucial question of why, despite widespread recognition of the shortcomings of the political system, subsequent attempts at reform failed. War has long been seen as crucial to the development of more effective systems of government in Europe during the seventeenth century, but studies usually concentrate on states which responded successfully to the challenges. Much can be learned from those that failed, and the paucity of English-language material on this important conflict means that After the Deluge will appeal to a broad audience among historians of Poland, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, and early modern Europe in general.

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    ‘… a skilful account of a turning point in Polish Eastern European history …’.

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