Search for dissertations about: "early modern state formation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words early modern state formation.

2. 1. Grasping the Peripheral State : A Historical Sociology of Nicaraguan State Formation

   Author : Anders Neergaard; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; national arena; international arena; integrative capacity; repressive capacity; extractive capacity; international system of states; world capitalist economy; colonial legacy; peripheral state; nation-state; state formation; Historical political sociology; state forms; state arena; infrastructural power; despotic power.; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Abstract : The thesis has two aims. The first one is to contribute to the field of political and historical sociology through an understanding of the processes of state formation in a Third World country. The second aim is to describe and analyze the development of the Nicaraguan state from independence to 1990. READ MORE

4. 2. Dutch experts in the early modern Swedish state : Employment strategies and knowledge building, 1560–1670

   Author : Håkan Jakobsson; Leif Runefelt; Mats Hallenberg; Peter Lindström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; administration; change agents; commerce; competence; diplomacy; Dutch; early modern state; expertise; fishing; institutional memory; knowledge; shipbuilding; the Dutch Republic; trade; History; historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role played by Dutch experts in various enterprises and organisations managed or administered by the early modern Swedish state. The work demonstrates how and why Dutch experts were introduced to Sweden, in what manner they were employed by the Swedish state and how their knowledge was utilised in state-controlled organisations. READ MORE

5. 3. Defining Dukeship : The Problem of Royal Spares and Dynasty Formation in Sweden, 1556-1622

   Author : Alexander Isacsson; Patrik Lundell; Henric Bagerius; Patrik Winton; Anu Lahtinen; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dukeship; institutional biography; dynasty formation; Sweden; early modern; integration process; bargaining state; self-identification; categorisation; legitimation;

   Abstract : This book examines how dukeship – the position of being a duke – was defined and negotiated in Sweden between the late 1550s and the early 1620s. The aim is to shed light on how the structural problem of royal spares, with dukes as pillars and perils of hereditary monarchy, influenced politics and the integration process of a ruling house. READ MORE

6. 4. The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden

   Author : Klas Nilsson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; revenue; autocracy; regime change; fiscal sociology; public finance; state-building; Sweden; Early Modern Europe; Rentier State; royal power; statsinkomster; statsstyre; politisk utveckling; Rentier State; Rentierism; skattesystem; tidigmodern statsbildning; Sverige; europeisk historia;

   Abstract : According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access to what I conceptualize as ‘proprietary revenue’—including profits from landownership, natural resource extraction, state-owned enterprise, and colonial plunder—could use such revenue to concentrate political authority in their own hands and rule as autocrats. READ MORE

7. 5. Att hålla folket på gott humör : Informationsspridning, krigspropaganda och mobilisering i Sverige 1655-1680

   Author : Anna Maria Forssberg; Arne Jarrick; Jan Glete; Maria Sjöberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; information; propaganda; war propaganda; mobilisation; legitimation of power; power resources; negotiations; state formation; church history; Karl X Gustav; Karl XI; early modern history; 17th century; Sweden.; History subjects; Historieämnen;

   Abstract : Starting around 1500 a period of state formation changed the European map. The scattered medieval principalities were replaced with more centralised and better organised states with permanent armies. Sweden was quite successful in competing with these states and experienced a period of expansion. READ MORE