Search for dissertations about: "19th century"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 180 swedish dissertations containing the words 19th century.

  2. 6. Navigating the foreign quarters : Everyday life of the Swedish East India Company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830

    Author : Lisa Hellman; Leos Müller; Gunlög Fur; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Canton; Macao; Everyday Life; Swedish East India Company; China; 18th century; 19th century; Global history; Maritime History; Port city; Practices; Gender; Masculinity; Groups; Space; Communication; Material culture; Trust; Kanton; Macao; Vardagsliv; Svenska Ostindiska Kompaniet; Kina; 1700-tal; 1800-tal; Globalhistoria; Maritim historia; Hamn; Praktiker; Genus; Maskulinitet; Grupper; Rum; Kommunikation; Materialitet; Tillit; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the everyday life of the Swedish East India company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830. Through a focus on everyday practices, analysed on the basis of ethnicity, class and gender, I show how the Swedes and other foreigners led their everyday life in a constant interplay between adaptation to and transgression of Chinese rules. READ MORE

  4. 7. 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. 8. Bishops, politics and anti-clericalism in nineteenth century England and Sweden : an analysis of the debate on the political role of the anglican bishops during the 1830s parliamentary reform debate in comparison to Sweden

    Author : Jakob Evertsson; Nils-Erik Villstrand; Hanne Sanders; Finland Åbo Åbo akademi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bishops; Anticlericalism; England; Sweden; 19th century; Historia; History;

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  6. 9. Parents, children and their families : living arrangements of old people in the XIX century, Sundsvall region, Sweden

    Author : Leonardo Fusè; Sören Edvinsson; Hans Nilsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; 19th century; Demographic transition; Sundsvall; Sweden; Family planning; Household structure; Industrialization; Life-course analysis; Living arrangements; Old age; Social history; Demography; Demografi;

    Abstract : This study deals with the intergenerational coresidence during the nineteenth century. The main focus is placed on the possible differences in the coresidences among parents and children and whether demographic transition and industrialization changed this relation. READ MORE

  7. 10. Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade

    Author : Dimitrios Theodoridis; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; economic development; industrialization; 19th-century; land; ecological footprint; land productivity; colonies; coal; slave trade; trade; ghost acres; empire; sustainability;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during the nineteenth century and provides the first all encompassing accounts on this topic. READ MORE