Search for dissertations about: "Modern history up to circa 1800"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Modern history up to circa 1800.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721

    Author : Fabian Persson; Eva Österberg; MJ Rodriguez-Salgado; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; aristocracy; informal power; patronage; prosopography; Court; royal household; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History; Historia;

    Abstract : In what has been seen as an age of increasing bureaucratisation, did it matter who was close to the monarch? Since the monarch embodied supreme wordly power, the way in which daily life at court was organised was of great importance. One function of the early modern court was, in the words of Geoffrey Elton, to act as a point of contact between monarch and élite. READ MORE