Search for dissertations about: "economic history dissertations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words economic history dissertations.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Economic Nationalizing in the Ethnic Borderlands of Hungary and Romania : Inclusion, Exclusion and Annihilation in Szatmár/Satu-Mare 1867–1944

    Author : Anders E. B. Blomqvist; Anu Mai Köll; Leos Müller; Dennis Deletant; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Economic nationalizing; ethnonationalism; nationalism; economic nationalism; ethnicity; borderland; Hungary; Romania; Austria-Hungary; Transylvania; Holocaust; anti-Semitism; political economy; assimilation; ethnic economy; ethnocracy; minorities; History; historia; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning;

    Abstract : The history of the ethnic borderlands of Hungary and Romania in the years 1867–1944 were marked by changing national borders, ethnic conflicts and economic problems. Using a local case study of the city and county of Szatmár/Satu-Mare, this thesis investigates the practice and social mechanisms of economic nationalizing. READ MORE

  5. 3. From Kinship to Global Brand : The Discourse on Culture in Nordic Cooperation after World War II

    Author : Anna Kharkina; Kekke Stadin; Irina Sandomirskaja; Nikolas Glover; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordic culture; Nordic region; cultural cooperation; cultural policy; security community; historia; History;

    Abstract : This work analyzes the political instrumentalization of culture. Specifically, it studies how this is done through cultural policy within Western democracies. The analysis takes, as an example, official Nordic cultural cooperation in the post-war period. READ MORE

  6. 4. Enabled by the past : understanding endogenous innovation in mature industries

    Author : Ksenia Onufrey; Anna Bergek; Thomas Magnusson; Lars Coenen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; mature industry; endogenous innovation; innovation mechanisms; exploitation; radical innovation; lighting industry; pulp and paper industry;

    Abstract : Mature industries have played and still play a crucial role in national and world economies. To survive and retain competitiveness, they need to innovate, as innovation is the driver of economics growth and industrial transformation. READ MORE

  7. 5. Cultivating the Rural Citizen : Modernity, Agrarianism and Citizenship in Late Tsarist Estonia

    Author : Johan Eellend; David Gaunt; Toivo U. Raun; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonia; Agrarian Ideology; Agrarian Modernization; Citizenship; Family; Gender; Public Sphere; Agricultural Journals; Agricultural Associations; Exhibitions; 19th Century; 20th Century; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the ideas and political practices produced in the emerging rural public sphere in late Tsarist Estonia. The time period is characterized by radical social and economic change and growing national and political self consciousness. READ MORE