Atlantis Restored: Natural Knowledge and Political Economy in Early Modern Sweden.
After success in the Thirty Years' War, elites in Sweden realized that the nation had to establish a new economic base to support its newfound geopolitical prominence. Drawing on the Pan-European natural-knowledge-based political economy, Swedish reformers developed a version uniquely applicable to...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 127; no. 4; pp. 1687 - 1715 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2022
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