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1. Tortyr och pinligt förhör - våld och tvång i äldre svensk rätt
Sammanfattning : Torture in the past is the subject of this dissertation. The aim of the study is to discuss one of the grand narratives of Swedish history. In an evolutionary frame Sweden has been put forward as a country which early developed judicial security for citizens. LÄS MER
2. Svenska siffror : Nationell integration och identifikation genom statistik 1800–1870
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study the nation building process in Sweden. How was a national identity constructed? One answer to this question is that statistical representations of the nation played a major role to shape a visual image of Sweden. Statistical books became a popular genre during the nineteenth century. LÄS MER
3. Negotiating 'Culture', Assembling a Past: the Visual, the Non-Visual and the Voice of the Silent Actant
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the processes surrounding the creation of a scientific visual representation, where, both in the practical creation of this visualisation and in the way it is communicated, those actants which amount to what we call ‘culture’ or cultural value, are enrolled or ignored. Trying to answer if a broader set of non-visual cultural properties can be identified and their influence described, and if history can be visualised without displacing our knowledge of the past in favour of a popular representation thereof, I trace the interaction between client, artist, technology and target audience. LÄS MER
4. Traditionella nyheter : Kläder, ekonomi och politik i Virestad socken 1750-1850
Sammanfattning : During the first half of the 20th century, ethnologists investigated rural parts of Sweden. They hoped to uncover traces of a truly ancient culture which they imagined had been preserved unchanged in so-called relic areas. LÄS MER
5. Fem ödekyrkor i Norrland : kyrklig förnyelse, kulturminnesvård och kyrkorestaureringar vid 1900-talets början
Sammanfattning : The new church of Ytterlännäs, a large Neo-Classical sermon church, was consecrated in 1854. The old, medieval church was far too small to house the growing number of visitors. It was therefore abandoned, but managed to be spared from demolition. LÄS MER