Search for dissertations about: "Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914.

  2. 1. Coming Full Circle? : Return Migration and the Social Mobility on the Bjäre Peninsula 1860-1930

    Author : Magnus C Persson; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Social structures; Båstad; Social and economic history; Bjäre; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Social Mobility; Sweden; United States; History; Return Migration; Returnees; Political Activities; Local History; Lifestyles; Emigration; Immigration; Sociala strukturer; Ekonomisk och social historia; Historia;

    Abstract : One million three hundred thousand people left Sweden for America between 1860 and 1930. In the same period, approximately two hundred thousand people returned to Sweden. "Coming Full Circle?" is an analysis of the fate and local impact of the local returnees on the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 2. Empire and identity. Biographies of Austrian identity in an age of imperial dissolution

    Author : Fredrik Lindström; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Friedrich Naumann; Mitteleuropa; Karl Renner; Leopold von Andrian; Heinrich Friedjung; Josef Redlich; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Ernest von Koerber; biography; Habsburg empire; Austrian identity; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

    Abstract : This study deals with the problem of Austrian identity in the late Habsburg empire. The investigation departs from an understanding of this problem as situated in the juncture between the historical Austrian imperial experience and the process of modern Austrian identity formation. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden, c.1770-1865

    Author : Mark Davies; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; 1700s 1800s; British Travel Literature; Sweden; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

    Abstract : Sweden of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was visited and toured by a number of British author-travellers, whose subsequently published views of and on the country and its people are examined and presented in this thesis. Using as primary sources British-published monographs deriving, wholly or in part, from an experienced Sweden of c. READ MORE

  6. 4. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts

    Author : Anna Cabak Rédei; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenological sociology; Fenomenologi; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Phenomenology; Humanities; Parisian salons; Humaniora; Fransk litteratur; Germaine de Staël; Cultural semiotics; Autobiographical travel accounts; French literature; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

    Abstract : Cultural semiotics studies encounters between cultures. Notions such as Culture, Extra-culture and Non-culture were developed in the 1970s by the Tartu school and were used in their studies of Russian culture and its relation to Western Europe, with special focus on Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia in the eighteenth century. READ MORE