Sökning: "Eighteenth-century history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 76 avhandlingar innehållade orden Eighteenth-century history.
1. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France
Sammanfattning : My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry. LÄS MER
2. I want to stay : Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about war captivity in the early eighteenth century. It is also about the ways in which early modern local communities negotiated their boundaries towards the outside world. The resident populations’ interaction with prisoners of war (POWs) offers unique perspectives on how local communities handled wartime migrants. LÄS MER
3. Berättelser om 1700-talet : frihetstiden och Gustav III:s regeringstid i svensk historiekultur från 1870-tal till 1990-tal
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses historical-cultural change in Sweden during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The study focuses on historical narratives concerning the eighteenth-century epoch called the Age of Liberty and the subsequent reign of Gustav III. LÄS MER
4. Mutual Favours : The social and scientific practice of eighteenth-century Swedish chemistry
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is a study of the creation of chemistry as a science in eighteenth-century Sweden. It is argued that the chemists in the study participated in a network for exchange of scientific facts and all kinds of favours, in which science was both conducted, negotiated and created. LÄS MER
5. Fäderneslandets rätta beskrivning : Mötet mellan antikvarisk forskning och ekonomisk nyttokult i 1700-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to deepen our understanding the meaning of the term "fatherland" as it was used in eighteenth- century Sweden. It is commonly known that the term could represent a local or cultural community as well as a national and political one. The Swedish realm consisted of several parts of which Finland was one important part. LÄS MER
