Search for dissertations about: "historia"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 1019 swedish dissertations containing the word historia.
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11. Vackrare vardagsvara – design för alla? : Gregor Paulsson och Svenska Slöjdföreningen 1915–1925
Abstract : This thesis is structured in six chapters. Chapter I contains an introduction and includes purpose, theory, method, and concepts. READ MORE
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12. The merchant houses of Stockholm, c. 1640-1800 : A comparative study of early-modern entrepreneurial behaviour
Abstract : This thesis analyses the entrepreneurial behaviour of the Stockholm merchants in the early-modern period. Two merchant families, the Momma-Reenstiernas (1640-80) and the Grills (1730-1800), are studied and compared, with the aim of tracing the typical pattern of the entrepreneurial behaviour and how it changed between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth centuries. READ MORE
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13. Constructing Lithuania : Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914
Abstract : Up until now the discipline of history has most often used maps as a convenient tool for illustration. Scholars have thus touched only briefly upon the development of maps and their role in the processes underlying the formation of national territories and the establishment of ethnic boundaries. READ MORE
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14. The power of character : Middle-class masculinities, 1800–1900
Abstract : This is a study of continuity and change in middle-class conceptions of ideal manhood. My theoretical cues are the notions of the male as an unproblematised and genderless norm, masculinity as homosocial, and George L. Mosse’s use of countertypes. Notions of passions, youth, and character were important throughout the century. READ MORE
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15. Church and nation : The discourse on authority in Ericus Olai's Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1471)
Abstract : The Chronica regni Gothorum is the first Latin national history of Sweden. Completed after 1471 by a canon of Uppsala, Ericus Olai, it testifies to the articulation at the Swedish arch see of the dominant political issues of the day: the status of the Swedish realm in the union with Denmark-Norway, and the relations between the king, aristocracy and ecclesiastical leadership. READ MORE