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  1. 6. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

    Författare :Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Exposure to crime as a consequence of poverty : five investigations about relative deprivation, poverty and exposure to crime

    Författare :Daniel Larsson; Björn Halleröd; Henrik Tham; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; poverty; exposure to crime; fear of crime; welfare problems; Sweden; Britain; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains five studies that in different ways investigate poverty and the relation between poverty and exposure to crime. The basis of the thesis has been the question of how poverty is related to other welfare problems such as unemployment and health problems, focusing on exposure to crime and fear of crime. LÄS MER

  4. 8. The State, Parliamentary Legislation and Economic Policy during the Structural Transformation of British Economy, 1700-1850

    Författare :Emrah Gülsunar; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political institutions; parliament; state; economic policy; structural transformation; economic growth; Britain;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the reaction of political institutions to the structural transformation of the British economy from 1700 to 1850. The majority of the literature on the relationship between institutions and economic growth conceptualises the political institutions as a precondition to modern economic growth in the British context. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Stable Media in the Age of Revolutions : Depictions of Economic Matters in British and Swedish State Newspapers, 1770–1820

    Författare :Sarah Linden Pasay; Göran Rydén; Jonas Lindström; Joachim Östlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic language; Sweden; Britain; newspapers; public sphere; embeddedness; Enlightenment; modernity; London Gazette; Post- och Inrikes Tidningar; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines how economic matters were depicted between 1770 and 1820 in two European kingdoms. Britain and Sweden are studied during this Age of Revolutions from the state’s perspective; state-managed newspapers are examined, one from Britain, the London Gazette, and two from Sweden, Stockholms Post-Tidningar and Inrikes Tidningar. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Gendering the sociology profession : Sweden, Britain and the US

    Författare :Sanja Magdalenić; Barbara Hobson; Joan Acker; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociology; professions; organizations; gender; professional project; history of sociology; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation explores the relationship between gender and professions with a historical sociological analysis of the sociology profession in Sweden, Britain and the US. The theoretical framework draws upon three conceptual terrains: professions, organizations and gender. LÄS MER