Sökning: "culture wars"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden culture wars.
1. Låtsaskrigen : föreställningar om krig, maskulinitet och historia i krigsspel under 200 år
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how different wargames relate to notions of war, masculinity and history. It poses the question how the concept of authenticity is used in relation to wargames portrayal of war, masculinity and history. The outline of the thesis is chronological, spanning roughly from the 19th century to the present. LÄS MER
2. Our Side of the Water : Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825
Sammanfattning : The small island of St Barthélemy was a Swedish colony 1784–1878 and saw its greatest population growth and trade during the turn of the nineteenth century. This was because of Gustavia, the Swedish founded free port, which attracted mariners from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. LÄS MER
3. Peter Ackroyd and the Borders of Englishness
Sammanfattning : Since the dissolution of the British Empire, anxiety about the loss of Englishness has circulated at various sites of public discourse in Britain: politics, the media, education, culture and literature. This study investigates the configuration and representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s writing as exemplary of this anxiety. LÄS MER
4. Ordens kraft. Politiska eder i Sverige 1520-1718 : The force of words. Political oaths in Sweden 1520-1718
Sammanfattning : Political oaths were widespread in medieval times, but all over Europe their use dwindled in the early modern period, resulting in the institution being dismantled in many states. In previous research, this decay has been explained by pointing to the emergence of the state in this period, through processes such as bureaucratization, nationalization, and confessionalization, and, later, secularization. LÄS MER
5. De värjde sin rätt : senmedeltida bondemotstånd i Skåne och Småland
Sammanfattning : "They defended their Right: late medieval Peasant Resistance in Scania and Småland." The aim of this thesis is to explore in what ways peasants could resist and protest against authorities during the final decades of the Nordic late middle ages, the years 1490-1525. LÄS MER
