Search for dissertations about: "19th century Stockholm"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words 19th century Stockholm.
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1. How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018
Abstract : In this dissertation three central themes concerning the ownership and allocation in the city of Stockholm over long periods are examined.The first theme property markets involves constructions of real estate price indexes spanning from 1726 to 2018. READ MORE
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2. Constructing Lithuania : Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914
Abstract : Up until now the discipline of history has most often used maps as a convenient tool for illustration. Scholars have thus touched only briefly upon the development of maps and their role in the processes underlying the formation of national territories and the establishment of ethnic boundaries. READ MORE
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3. Volatility, integration and grain banks : studies in harvests, rye prices and institutional development of the parish magasins in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries
Abstract : This study is the first to focus primarily on the Swedish parish magasins, the country’s most widespread credit institution in the last half of the 18th, and the first part of the 19th, century. During the Early Modern Period, grain price volatility was a matter of great concern. READ MORE
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4. Risk factors for measles mortality : studies from Kenya and 19th century Stockholm
Abstract : Measles kills about 1 million children per year in low-income developing countries. In many industrialized countries, the transmission of measles and its lethal effects have become controlled through immunization and social developments in general. READ MORE
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5. A History under Siege : Intensive Agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th Century to the Present
Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines the history of the Iraqw’ar Da/aw area in the Mbulu Highlands of northern Tanzania. Since the late nineteenth century this area has been known for its intensive cultivation, and referred to as an “island” within a matrix of less intensive land use. READ MORE
