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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Early modern currency -- 1. Subsidies-an introduction -- Reaping what others sow -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Why subsidies? -- Argument -- Method -- 2. Treaties, context, and content -- The Treaty of Bärwalde -- The Peace of Westphalia -- Interlude-absolutism and the Great Reduction -- Liberty -- The return of the king -- The common thread -- 3. Subsidies, dependence, and independence -- Follow the money -- The 1630s and 1640s -- After 1648 -- The eighteenth century -- The mechanics of subsidies -- Great power and great freedom? -- 4. Subsidies and honour -- Whose honour? -- 5. French objectives and interests -- Vote-rigging -- Destabilization politics -- Dynastic politics -- Patrons, clients, and 'protection' -- Subsidies -- France's interest in Sweden -- Shifting alliances -- 6. Rivalries, conflicts, and complications -- Conflicting objectives -- Casus belli -- New century, same old tensions -- Practical complications, complicated individuals -- Asymmetric friendship -- 7. Subsidies, history, and enduring friendship -- An uncomfortable past -- A special friendship -- 8. Subsidies, resistance, and criticism -- Swedish shame, French betrayal -- The pamphleteers -- The root of the problem -- 9. The impact of subsidies-migration, mobility, and mortality -- Princes and states -- The impact of subsidies on Sweden -- War, death, and suffering -- Women's lives -- Infrastructure and infraknowledge -- Officers and officials -- Bankers and financiers -- Diplomats, politicians, and negotiators -- Soft power and luxury consumption -- Concluding remarks -- 10. The impact of subsidies-three case studies -- The Peace of Westphalia -- War, the Great Reduction, and autocracy -- The coup of 1772 -- Concluding comments -- Concluding discussion -- Notes -- References -- Index of names -- Index of treaties.