Sökning: "1840s"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade ordet 1840s.
1. Emancipationens gränser : Emilie Flygare-Carléns 1840-talsromaner och kvinnans ställning
Sammanfattning : Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807—92) was one of the most widely read novelists in Sweden throughout the nineteenth century. This study construes her works as participating in an emancipatory dialogue. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which Emilie Flygare-Carlén treats, discusses, and problematizes gender relations in her novels. LÄS MER
2. Läsarna som brände böcker : Erik Jansson och erikjansarna i 1840-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The theological characteristics were the demand for sinlessness and perfection and Jansson’s theory of decay, in which post-biblical theological thought was rejected. Jansson claimed to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit and sent to reveal the true biblical faith. LÄS MER
3. Att odla ett samhälle : Råby räddningsinstitut och 1840-talets sociala ingenjörskonst
Sammanfattning : This dissertation uses the metaphor of cultivating society to discuss social engineering as it came to expression in the texts and activities of Råby reformatory in Sweden during the 1840’s. The concept of the gardening state as expressed in Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust and James C. LÄS MER
4. Honourable Merchant or Efficient Businessman : The Transformation of Economic Culture and the Leading Economic Actors in Gävle 1765–1869
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how economic actors acted and related to economic institutions that were in a state of change. The question can be formulated as follows: How did the economic culture that Gävle's leading economic actors were a part of change during the period 1765–1869? The aim of the study is to provide new insight into Swedish economic development during this period. LÄS MER
5. Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology
Sammanfattning : In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. LÄS MER
