Sökning: "Hanna Hodacs"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Hanna Hodacs.
1. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts
Sammanfattning : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. LÄS MER
2. Trees of Knowledge : Science and the Shape of Genealogy
Sammanfattning : This study investigates early employments of family trees in the modern sciences, in order to historicise their iconic status and now established uses, notably in evolutionary biology and linguistics. Moving beyond disciplinary accounts to consider the wider cultural background, it examines how early uses within the sciences transformed family trees as a format of visual representation, as well as the meanings invested in them. LÄS MER
3. Kiär hustru, wackra barn, bodde i ett palais : Identitet och materialitet i hushållet von Linné
Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is identity and materiality in the household of Carl Linnaeus. Focus in on the period between the mid 1730s and early 1780s. The household eventually came to consist of five children and a number of servants. LÄS MER
