Sökning: "historisk geografi"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden historisk geografi.
1. Utkast till en historisk-antiqvarisk beskrifning öfver Westra Wingåkers socken i Södermanland. Med philosophiska facultetens samtycke och under inseende af mag. Joh. Henr. Schröder ... till allmän granskning utgifvet af Joh. Fredr. Bahr af Gothlands nation. På Gustav. Lärosalen den 12 December 1832 ... I. Del
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2. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER
4. The Coloniality of Taste : A political ecology of middle class food practices in a Bolivian city
Sammanfattning : Cochabamba city, also referred to as the “gastronomic capital of Bolivia”, is a place where different cultures and tastes meet. Indulging in rich culinary traditions is a part of everyday life, but so are social differentiations reproducing long-standing inequalities between the indigenous and the non-indigenous population. LÄS MER
5. The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
Sammanfattning : This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. LÄS MER
