Search for dissertations about: "19th and 20th century"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the words 19th and 20th century.

  2. 1. How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018

    Author : Klas A. M. Eriksson; Rodney Edvinsson; Bo Franzén; Christian Sandström; Erik Lakomaa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; real estate; law; private property; public property; Stockholm; PBL; planning and building law; urban; Sweden; New Institutional Economics; long-term; mixed methods; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; general; specific; formulations; entrepreneurship; regulations; sharing; owning; digital entrepreneurship; digital innovation; cities; agglomeration; institutional entrepreneurship; field conditions; regulatory capture; price index; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

    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

  4. 2. Cultivating the Rural Citizen : Modernity, Agrarianism and Citizenship in Late Tsarist Estonia

    Author : Johan Eellend; David Gaunt; Toivo U. Raun; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonia; Agrarian Ideology; Agrarian Modernization; Citizenship; Family; Gender; Public Sphere; Agricultural Journals; Agricultural Associations; Exhibitions; 19th Century; 20th Century; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the ideas and political practices produced in the emerging rural public sphere in late Tsarist Estonia. The time period is characterized by radical social and economic change and growing national and political self consciousness. READ MORE

  5. 3. Towards environmental historical national accounts for Sweden : methodological considerations and estimates for the 19th and 20th centuries

    Author : Magnus Lindmark; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; historical national accounts; environmental history; environmental accounting; historical environmental accounting; iron ore; standing timber; pollution; environmental Kuznets curve;

    Abstract : New questions in a changing economy demands development of both contemporary and historical national accounts. One such question concerns economic and environmental relationships. From a national accounting perspective this issue has been approached in terms of environmental accounting. READ MORE

  6. 4. Scarred for Life. How conditions in early life affect socioeconomic status, reproduction and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813-1968

    Author : Luciana Quaranta; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early life; selection and scarring; diet and disease; life course; historical demography; southern Sweden; 19th and 20th century;

    Abstract : The aim of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the debate on the importance of diet and disease in explaining the mortality decline and the general literature of the long-term effects of early life conditions. Using individual-level data from Southern Sweden for 1813 to 1968, this work measures the impacts of grain prices during the foetal stage and infant mortality rates during the year of birth on mortality over the full life course, as well as on female socioeconomic status attainment and reproductive health. READ MORE

  7. 5. Glaciers and climate in northern Sweden during the 19th and 20th century

    Author : Per Klingbjer; Per Holmlund; Stig Jonsson; Anders Moberg; Georg Kaser; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : physical geography; climate; temperature; glacier; mass balance; jökulhlaup; responce time; photogrammetry;

    Abstract : Our understanding of the climate of northern Sweden during the late Holocene is largely dependent on proxy-data series. These datasets remain spatially and temporally sparse and instrumental series are rare prior to the mid 19th century. READ MORE