Search for dissertations about: "19th century"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 180 swedish dissertations containing the words 19th century.

  2. 11. Care and Coercion : medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1785-1903

    Author : Anna Lundberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Medical history; demography; patient-records; diagnostics; therapeutics; social policy; venereal disease; life-course; Sweden; 19th century;

    Abstract : This study investigates the history of venereal diseases in Sweden in the period from 1785 to 1903. Medical and political perceptions of these diseases as well as the patients and their continued lives have been studied. Venereal diseases were considered a significant threat to the growth of the population throughout the period. READ MORE

  4. 12. Constructing communities : The establishment and demographic development of sawmill communities in the Sundsvall district, 1850-1890

    Author : Maria Bergman; Sören Edvinsson; Anna Lundberg; Ann-Sofie Högman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sawmill; sawmill worker; Sundsvall; 19th century; community; population development; migration; internal parish migration; barriers; residency; demographic structure; fammily; kinship networks; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the establishment and demographic development of the sawmill communities that emerged in the Sundsvall district during the latter half of the 19th century.  The intention is to highlight the importance of the sawmill communities and their resident populations by discussing community construction from a demographic perspective as well as socially and symbolically. READ MORE

  5. 13. Landscapes of Technology Transfer : Swedish Ironmakers in India 1860–1864

    Author : Jan Af Geijerstam; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of technology; industrial heritage studies; industrial archaeology; technology transfer; diffusion; technological systems; landscapes of technology; iron and steel; charcoal iron; direct and indirect ironmaking; bloomeries; 19th century; indu; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : In the early 1860s three Swedes, Nils Wilhelm Mitander,Julius Ramsay and Gustaf Wittenström, were engaged by theBritish to build and run charcoal-based ironworks in India.These works, the Burwai Iron Works of the British Government inthe case of Mitander and the privately owned Kumaon Iron Worksin the case of Ramsay and Wittenström, were both to bebased on the most modern European technology. READ MORE

  6. 14. Aesthetic Experiences of Presence : Case Studies in Film Exhibition, 1896-1898

    Author : Gert Jan Harkema; Jan Olsson; John Fullerton; Tom Gunning; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film history; media history; early cinema; film experience; 19th century; aesthetics; presence; intermediality; phenomenology; the Netherlands; Chicago; modernity; fairground; vaudeville; Aladdin; Henri Grünkorn; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : This study investigates viewing experiences that came with the introduction of cinema. Merging (film) history with aesthetic theory, this dissertation entails historically informed theoretical reconstructions of viewing experiences between 1896 and 1898. READ MORE

  7. 15. Constructing Lithuania : Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914

    Author : Vytautas Petronis; Per Bolin Hort; David Gaunt; Theodore R. Weeks; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Russian Empire; Lithuania; Western provinces; Ethnography; Ethnic Mapping; Cartography; Nationalism; 19th century; History; Historia; historia; History;

    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