Sökning: "agrarian history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 99 avhandlingar innehållade orden agrarian history.
1. Jord, linne eller träkol? : Genusordning och hushållsstrategier, Bjuråker 1750-1850
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to elucidate how people in a household-based pre-industrial agrarian economy acted during a period of great changes. The household is seen as a meaning-creating sym-bol in the local culture. LÄS MER
2. Distribution and Differences : Stratification and the System of Reproduction in a Swedish Peasant Community 1620-1820
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the character, conditions and change of peasant stratification in early modern Sweden. Wherever and whenever one looks, one finds that resources were unevenly spread among peasant households. In the literature, there are different, and conflicting, views compatible with this finding. LÄS MER
3. Jorden vi ärvde : Arvsöverlåtelser och familjestrateger på den uppländska landsbygden 1810-1930
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates inheritance among landowning families in the parish of Estuna in east-central Sweden between 1810 and 1930. The patterns of action examined in the study are analyzed as strategies in terms of objectives and principles on the one hand, and means towards these objectives and principles on the other. LÄS MER
4. I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860 : Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically as a gendered, contracted position with both economic and moral dimensions attached to them. LÄS MER
5. Cultivating the Rural Citizen : Modernity, Agrarianism and Citizenship in Late Tsarist Estonia
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the ideas and political practices produced in the emerging rural public sphere in late Tsarist Estonia. The time period is characterized by radical social and economic change and growing national and political self consciousness. LÄS MER