Sökning: "History from Below"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 95 avhandlingar innehållade orden History from Below.

  1. 1. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France

    Författare :Armel Cornu; H. Otto Sibum; Hjalmar Fors; Sven Widmalm; Jakob Vogel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mineral waters; Eighteenth century; French Enlightenment; History of science; History of chemistry; Social history; Société de Médecine; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Från politik till praktik : de svenska steriliseringslagarna 1935-1975

    Författare :Mattias Tydén; Kari Melby; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; eugenics; sterilisation; social policy; welfare state; Swedish 20th century history; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is the Swedish policy of eugenic and non-eugenic sterilisation 1935-75. It aims to describe and analyse the policy-making process in Parliament and its implementations on the central (National Board of Health) and local levels. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Arbetets relationer och etniska dimensioner : Verkstadsföreningen, Metall och esterna vid Svenska Stålpressnings AB i Olofström 1945-1952

    Författare :Johan Svanberg; Lars Olsson; Jonny Hjelm; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Migration; labour recruitment; migrant workers; refugees; trade union; labour; capital; state; class; ethnicity; gender; age; Estonia; Sweden; 20th century; History subjects; Historieämnen; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : Labour migration to Sweden is analysed from a labour perspective. As regards theory, the thesis focuses on how class and ethnicity intersect in a capitalistic setting, but it also gives attention to gender and age as structural principles. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kampen om befolkningen : Den svenska nationsformeringens utveckling och sociopolitiska förutsättningar ca 1780–1860

    Författare :Anne Berg; Torkel Jansson; Henrik Edgren; David Sjögren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Sweden; The Age of Revolution; nationalism; national ideological project; national identity; nation formation; nation building; social class; intellectuals; social history; hegemony; intellectuals; liberal class society; Western European states; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to problematize the western type of nation formation by characterizing and explaining the Swedish process of national identity construction during the Age of Revolution. Thus, the thesis sets out to investigate the political-hegemonic process of identity formation, redefinition and struggle between different political forces. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Konstruktionen av en stormakt : Kungamakt, skattebönder och statsbildning 1595-1640

    Författare :Johan Holm; Arne Jarrick; Nils Erik Villstrand; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statsbildningsprocess; underifrånperspektiv; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : State building has traditionally been viewed strictly as the prerogative of rulers. However, recent studies have been focusing more on the perspective of state building from below. Princes and central administrators needed the active support of their leading subjects. In most parts of Europe this meant the nobility and/or the rich merchant groups. LÄS MER