Sökning: "Modern historia ca. 1800-1914"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Modern historia ca. 1800-1914.
1. Synd och skam : ogifta mödrar på svensk landsbygd 1680-1880
Sammanfattning : The situation of unmarried mothers in Swedish rural society during 1680–1880 is the subject of this thesis. It focuses on the judicial and religious discourse concerning extra-marital sexuality. The state felt duty-bound to control extra-marital sexuality, and this resulted in a dynamic legislative arena. LÄS MER
2. Coming Full Circle? : Return Migration and the Social Mobility on the Bjäre Peninsula 1860-1930
Sammanfattning : One million three hundred thousand people left Sweden for America between 1860 and 1930. In the same period, approximately two hundred thousand people returned to Sweden. "Coming Full Circle?" is an analysis of the fate and local impact of the local returnees on the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Populärkulturen och klassamhället. Arbete, klass och genus i svensk dampress i början av 1900-talet
Sammanfattning : The aim of my thesis is to demonstrate how class was constructed linguistically in Svensk Damtidning (Swedish Woman's Magazine) at the beginning of the 20th century. Theoretically, I call for a renewal of studies of class, thus joining the traditions of post-marxism and feminism. LÄS MER
4. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden, c.1770-1865
Sammanfattning : Sweden of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was visited and toured by a number of British author-travellers, whose subsequently published views of and on the country and its people are examined and presented in this thesis. Using as primary sources British-published monographs deriving, wholly or in part, from an experienced Sweden of c. LÄS MER
5. Den rotfaste bonden - myt eller verklighet? Brukaransvar i Ramkvilla socken 1620-1820
Sammanfattning : For how many years was a farmer responsible for running a farm in Sweden’s old peasant society’? This is the question that underpins my research into life in Ramkvilla parish in the province of Småland for two hundred years (1623–1819). By conducting a detailed study of farm practice at the individual level, I have been able to analyse a complex theme that touches upon the issues of responsibility for work and taxes, relationships between the generations and sexes, and the crises of agrarian society. LÄS MER