Search for dissertations about: "19th-century"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 162 swedish dissertations containing the word 19th-century.

  1. 16. 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

  2. 17. 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

  3. 18. The Hong Kyôngnae rebellion 1811-1812 : conflict between central power and local society in 19th-century Korea

    Author : Anders Karlsson; Jay Lewis; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; koreanologi; Koreanology;

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  4. 19. Light and nature in late 19th century Nordic art and literature

    Author : Neil Kent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art; Konstvetenskap;

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  5. 20. Risk factors for measles mortality : studies from Kenya and 19th century Stockholm

    Author : Bo Burström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : measles mortality; immunization; crowding; clustering; social factors; child;

    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