Search for dissertations about: "anti-slavery society"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words anti-slavery society.

  2. 1. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts

    Author : Hanna Hodacs; Catherine Hall; György Novaky; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; European identity; nationalism; Evangelicalism; anti-slavery society; Bible society; mission society; school society; temperance society; tract society.; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen;

    Abstract : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. READ MORE

  4. 2. Fredrika Bremer and the Writing of America

    Author : Laurel Ann Lofsvold; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; women; slavery; homes; America; Catharine M. Sedgwick; Anne C. Lynch; James Russell Lowell; Margaret Fuller; Ralph Waldo Emerson; A. J. Downing; Lydia Maria Child; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Fredrika Bremer; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Abstract : Hemmen i den nya verlden(1853-4) is novelist Fredrika Bremer's 3-volume travel diary in letter form, a literary account of her two years' travel in the United States and Cuba. Bremer wove, into the America she "wrote," a number of American authors and their works. Novelist Catharine Sedgwick and poet and socialite Anne C. READ MORE