Main group 1

• Ailes, Mary Elizabeth, Wars, widows, and state formation in 17th-century Sweden, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2006(31):1, s. 17-34
• Braddick, M.J., "The Early Modern English State and the Question of Differentation, from 1550 to 1700": Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1996
• Elliot, J.H., "A Europe of Composite Monarchies", Past & Present, 1992
• Frost, Robert I., The Northern wars: war, state and society in northeastern Europe, 1558-1721, Harlow, Longman, 2000
• Glete, Jan, War and the state in early modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1600, London, Routledge, 2002
• Lindegren, Jan, The Swedish "military state", 1560-1720., Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 1985 (10), s. 305-336 : fig.
• Tilly, Charles, "War making and state making as organized crime", in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer & Theda Skocpol (eds), Bringing the state back in, Cambridge, 1985

Main group 2

• Hartley, Janet M, Russia, 1762-1825: military power, the state and the people, Westport, 2008
• Munck, Thomas, "Keeping the peace: Good police and civic order in 18th-century Copenhagen, in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2007
• Rethinking Leviathan: the eighteenth-century state in Britain and Germany, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Pressc 1999, 1999

Main group 3

• Alm, Mikael, Royalty, legitimacy and imagery: the struggles for legitimacy of Gustavian absolutism, Part of: Scandinavian journal of history, 2003(28):1, s. 19-36
• Colley, Linda, "The apothesis of George III: Loyalty, royalty and the British nation 1760-1820", in Past & Present, 1984
• Knoppers, Laura, Lunger, Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait and Print, 1645-1661, Cambridge, 2000
• Munck, Thomas, "Absolute Monarchy in later eighteenth-century Denmark: Centralized reform, public expectations and the Copenhagen press", in The Historical Journal, 1998
• Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian, "The "Coronations" of Charles XII (1697), Frederick IV (1700) and Frederick III/I (1701), in Scandinavian Journal of History, 2003
• Whittaker, Cynthia H, "The Reforming Tsar: The Redefinition of Autocratic Duty in Eighteenth-Century Russia", in Slavic Review, 1992

Main group 4

• Northern revolts: medieval and early modern peasant unrest in the Nordic countries, Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society, 2004
• Te Brake, Wayne Ph., Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700, Berkeley, Calif., Univ. of California Press, cop. 1998