James Cavallie

James Cavallie (born December 20, 1933 ) is a Swedish historian .

Life

Cavallie studied history at Uppsala University and later worked as senior archivist in the Swedish Imperial Archives . He published, among other things, monographs on the Swedish financing of wars at the beginning of the Great Northern War 1700–1721 (dissertation), on socio-historical issues relating to the higher strata of Swedish officers during the 17th century, as well as a highly regarded double work on the German general and politician Erich Ludendorff and the Prussian landscape director Wolfgang Kapp .

Works

Essays

• Rank and national origin. A study of the Swedish high officers of the later great power period. In: Göran Rystad (Ed.): Europe and Scandinavia. Aspects of the Process of Integration in the 17th Century (Lund studies in international history; 18). Esselte Studium, Lund 1983, ISBN 91-24-32785-9 , pp. 135-57.

Monographs

• De Höga officerarna. Study i den svenska militära hierarkien under 1600-talets senare del. Militärhistoriska Förlag, Stockholm 1981, ISBN 91-85266-18-3 (with a German summary under the title The high officers ).
• Från fred till krig. De finansiella problemen kring krigsutbrottet år 1700. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1975, ISBN 91-554-0301-8 (also dissertation, University of Uppsala 1975).
• Ludendorff and Kapp in Sweden. From the life of two losers ("Ludendorff och Kapp i Sverige"). Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-631-47678-7 .
• Spengler i Sverige. The svenska receptionen of Oswald Spenglers teser om världhistorie and västerlandets undergång . Hjalmarson & Högberg, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-7224-086-5 .