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SWEDEN CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION	5
CHAPTER I SWEDEN IN PREHISTORIC AND EARLY HISTORIC TIMES—ARCHÆOLOGICAL FINDS AND CLASSICAL TESTIMONY	11
CHAPTER II DAWN OF SWEDISH HISTORY—HEIMSKRINGLA AND YNGLINGATAL	33
CHAPTER III THE VIKING AGE—ANSGAR, THE APOSTLE OF SWEDEN	44
CHAPTER IV EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA—STENKIL’S LINE AND INTERCHANGING DYNASTIES	64
CHAPTER V THE MEDIÆVAL STATE—THE FOLKUNG DYNASTY	80
CHAPTER VI UNIONISM VERSUS PATRIOTISM—MARGARET, ENGELBREKT AND CHARLES KNUTSSON	100
CHAPTER VII UNIONISM VERSUS PATRIOTISM—UNCROWNED KINGS OF THE STURE FAMILIES	115
CHAPTER VIII REVOLUTION AND REFORMATION—GUSTAVUS VASA	130
CHAPTER IX REFORMATION AND REACTION—THE SONS OF GUSTAVUS I.	161
CHAPTER X PERIOD OF POLITICAL GRANDEUR—GUSTAVUS II. ADOLPHUS	192
CHAPTER XI PERIOD OF POLITICAL GRANDEUR—QUEEN CHRISTINE	220
CHAPTER XII PERIOD OF POLITICAL GRANDEUR—CHARLES X. AND CHARLES XI.	242
CHAPTER XIII PERIOD OF POLITICAL GRANDEUR—CHARLES XII.	268
CHAPTER XIV PERIOD OF LIBERTY—THE ARISTOCRATIC REPUBLIC	310
CHAPTER XV GUSTAVIAN PERIOD—GUSTAVUS III. AND GUSTAVUS IV. ADOLPHUS	343
CHAPTER XVI THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY—CHARLES XIII. AND THE EARLY BERNADOTTES	365
CHAPTER XVII PARLIAMENTARY REFORM—CHARLES XV.	391
CHAPTER XVIII PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY—OSCAR II.	414

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