Search for dissertations about: "New History"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1093 swedish dissertations containing the words New History.

  2. 1. Order in Ruins : British Society and the Media Assemblage of The World at War c. 1970-1975

    Author : Allan Burnett; Mediehistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media history; History; Media; History; 20th Century; Media analysis; media and communication studies; Media and democracy; media and political engagement; media and politics; media and power; media and social relations; Media ecology; media ethics; Deleuze and Guattari; McLuhan; Gender history; British history; Social history; Memory studies; Nationalism; Transnational; National Identity; Second World War; Cold War; Cold War culture; European history; African history; Television; television production; television and everyday life; television history; Film and history; film as historical source material; television culture; film analysis; film archives; film archive; Oral history; Media technology; broadcasting history; 1960- och 1970-tal; 1970s; Assemblage theory; Public history; Postcolonial; war history; Military history; Holocaust memory; memory culture; history culture; British Empire; Enoch Powell; Thatcher; New Left; history of class divisions; Women s movement; Women s history; postmodernity; generational relation; generational shift; Holocaust; postwar era; Journalism and New media; Journalistic culture; journalistic ideology; journalistic roles; journalistic practices; journalistic techniques; Anglo-american; European Community; Decolonisation; Decolonization; migrational history; National identity; Communities of belonging; Globalisation; nuclear age; atomic age; Apocalyptic narrative; Apocalyptic; documentary; Documentary film; documentaries; Filmmaking; Filmmakers; Soviet history; Nazi Germany;

    Abstract : This thesis studies a period of intense crisis and creativity in British media, society, and culture, when the settled outcome of the Second World War (WW2) was perceived to be disintegrating. The post-world-war order was becoming an ‘order in ruins’. READ MORE

  4. 2. Historyscapes in Alor : Approaching indigenous history in Eastern Indonesia

    Author : Emilie Wellfelt; Gunlög Fur; Hans Hägerdal; Antoinette Schapper; Timo Kaartinen; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alor; Indonesia; historyscapes; uses of history; history-making; ethno-history; indigenous history; oral traditions; oral history; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with history and history-making practices in Alor, a small island in southeastern Indonesia. As in all of Indonesia, the people of Alor have experienced European colonialism, and after independence, a period of centralised, authoritarian rule under the New Order (1965-1998). READ MORE

  5. 3. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

    Author : Charlotta Forss; Mats Hallenberg; Henrik Ågren; Kristiina Savin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical geography; Ottoman Empire; colonial America; conceptual history; history of knowledge; history of cartography; history of science; religious geography; early modern history; historisk geografi; kartografi; begreppshistoria; kunskapshistoria; Osmanska riket; vetenskapshistoria; religiös geografi; tidigmodern historia; det koloniala Amerika; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 4. Tools of teaching and means of managing : Educational and sociopolitical functions of languages of instruction in elementary schools with Sámi pupils in Sweden, Finland and Norway 1900–1940 in a cross-national perspective

    Author : Otso Kortekangas; Maija Runcis; Jukka Nyyssönen; David Sjögren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; educational history; cross-national history; Sámi history; Nordic history; indigenous history; language of instruction; elementary schools; Norway; Sweden; Finland; utbildningshistoria; samisk historia; nomadskola; History; historia;

    Abstract : This dissertation contributes to recent research on Sámi education from two different angles. First of all, the dissertation pioneers as a cross-national study of the education of a cross-national population previously mainly studied within different nation states. READ MORE

  7. 5. In the Shadows of Poland and Russia : The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th century

    Author : Andrej Kotljarchuk; David Gaunt; Robert I Frost; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish-Lithuanian Relations; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Second Northern War; Swedish-Ukrainian Diplomacy; Swedish-Russian Diplomacy; Protestantism in Lithuania and Belarus; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This book examines and analyses the Union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden signed in 1655 at Kėdainiai and the political crisis that followed. The union was a result of strong separatist dreams among the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Protestant elite led by the Radziwiłł family, and if implemented it would radically change the balance of power in the Baltic Sea region. READ MORE