Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 SETTING THE SCENE -- chapter 2 THE BALTIC WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- chapter 3 THE STRUGGLE FOR LIVONIA (1558-95) -- chapter 4 THE TIME OF TROUBLES (1595-1617/21) -- chapter 5 THE BALTIC DURING THE THIRTY YEARS WAR (1618/21-48) -- chapter 6 THE FIRST GREAT NORTHERN WAR (1648-67) -- chapter 7 THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1667-1700) -- chapter 8 CHARLES XII, PETER THE GREAT AND THE END OF SWEDISH DOMINANCE (1700-21) -- chapter 9 A NEW BALANCE (1721-51) -- chapter 10 MID-CENTURY CRISES (1750-72) -- chapter 11 THE AGE OF GUSTAVUS III (1772-90)
Summary
Describes and explains the course of the series of struggles for power among the states surrounding the Baltic between the middle of the sixteenth and end of the eighteenth century
