Sökning: "18th century England"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden 18th century England.
1. Landskapets röster : Studier i Elias Martins bildvärld
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the Swedish landscape painter Elias Martin (1739-1818). The main interest is in his depictions of nature, landscape images and topographical views. Chronologically, it covers the period 1760 to 1810. LÄS MER
2. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820
Sammanfattning : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). LÄS MER
3. Ramble, linger and gaze
Sammanfattning : Ramble, linger, and gaze explores a method of architecturalresearch based on narrative dialogue and examines the gardentheories and literary garden representations of ThomasWhately (Observations on Modern gardening 1770) and JosephHeely (Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil, and theLeasowes 1777). The thesis has the form of a narrated dialoguebetween these two writers and the narrator, and it is situatedat Hagley Park, Worchestershire, England. LÄS MER
4. Braständaren och iakttagaren : engelsk press och journalistik 1695-1825
Sammanfattning : The role of the press for the development of democracy is studied in the case of the English press and journalism of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In a first sub-investigation the issue is engaged on a theoretical level. LÄS MER
5. När medeltidens sol gått ned : debatten om byggnadsvård i England, Frankrike och Tyskland 1815-1914
Sammanfattning : In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most medieval buildings of importance were repaired, reconstructed or rebuilt according to a number of different theories. Those theories, their origin, development, and transformation within different schools are studied. LÄS MER