Search for dissertations about: "Nordic history"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words Nordic history.

  2. 6. Saving the child : regional, cultural and social aspects of the infant mortality decline in Iceland, 1770-1920

    Author : ӓlöf Garðarsdóttir; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; infant mortality; neonatal mortality; breastfeeding; infant feeding; midwives; physicians; hygiene; neonatal tetanus; measles; fertility; literacy; history of medicine; Iceland;

    Abstract : The dissertation deals with the infant mortality decline in Iceland during the 19th and early 20th Century. It shows that despite its low degree of urbanization, pre-transitional Iceland displayed higher infant mortality rates than most other European countries. READ MORE

  4. 7. Becoming Artists : Self-Portraits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s

    Author : Carina Rech; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe; Martin Olin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordic art; nineteenth-century art; women artists; self-portrait; portraiture; friendship; studio; collaboration; emulation; letters; epistolary; self-fashioning; feminist art history; Opponents; Salon; Julia Beck; Hanna Hirsch-Pauli; Bertha Wegmann; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how Nordic women artists negotiated their professional identity in painting in the 1880s, focusing on the genres of the self-portrait, the friendship image and the studio interior. It investigates how artistic identity is fashioned through self-representation, collaboration with a colleague and in interaction with the interior of the studio as a constitutive space of artistic professionalism. READ MORE

  5. 8. Return Migration from Sweden : A Longitudinal Analysis

    Author : Martin Klinthäll; Tommy Bengtsson; Barry Chiswick; Lund Unviversity Department of Economic History; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Return migration; immigrants; labour migration; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Abstract : Return migration is one of the least studied areas within migration research, although it has major implications for both sending and receiving societies. The importance of the phenomenon is shown by the fact that more than 50 percent of the immigrants who arrived in Sweden in 1970 had returned after twenty years. READ MORE

  6. 9. Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region

    Author : Kristian Nilsson; Centrum för Europaforskning; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Comparative-historical linguistics; Baltic-Finns; Scandinavians; ethnohistory; conceptual history; intellectual history; the Nordic region;

    Abstract : The study investigates how the early nineteenth century invention of comparative-historical linguistics affected European ethnohistoric thought, and how this process altered ethnohistorical research on the early, pre-Christian history of the Nordic region. The case study of the Nordic region (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia) includes the discipline histories of Finno-Ugric studies, linguistics and the larger field of intellectual history. READ MORE

  7. 10. 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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