Sökning: "Modern history up to circa 1800"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Modern history up to circa 1800.
6. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden, c.1770-1865
Sammanfattning : Sweden of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was visited and toured by a number of British author-travellers, whose subsequently published views of and on the country and its people are examined and presented in this thesis. Using as primary sources British-published monographs deriving, wholly or in part, from an experienced Sweden of c. LÄS MER
7. Fruar och mamseller. Kvinnor inom sydsvensk borgerlighet 1790-1870
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an analysis of the culture and lifestyle of women in the middle classes in small towns in southern Sweden between 1790 and 1870, from a gender perspective. The study builds on local material from Lund, Karlshamn and Kristianstad, and is principally made up of the private letters and diaries of a large number of people. LÄS MER
8. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721
Sammanfattning : In what has been seen as an age of increasing bureaucratisation, did it matter who was close to the monarch? Since the monarch embodied supreme wordly power, the way in which daily life at court was organised was of great importance. One function of the early modern court was, in the words of Geoffrey Elton, to act as a point of contact between monarch and élite. LÄS MER
9. En europeisk kosmopolit : En idéhistorisk studie av Immanuel Kants Om den eviga freden och dess verkningshistoria
Sammanfattning : This dissertation, a contribution to the history of ideas, is a study of Immanuel Kant’s 1795 monograph Zum ewigen Frieden (Perpetual Peace) and its effective history. The intention is to show how this particular work has been formed, read, discussed and interpreted for about 200 years. LÄS MER
10. Folket, yxan och orättvisans rot. Betydelsebildning kring demokrati i den svenska rösträttsrörelsens diskursgemenskap, 1887-1902
Sammanfattning : The People, the Axe and the Root of Injustice: the Swedish Suffrage Movement's Discourse Community 1887?1902, its Production of Meaning and the Concept of Democracy In this thesis, I present a study of the Swedish suffrage movement's discourse community. The analyses focus primarily on the core of this movement, the Swedish Public Suffrage Association (Sveriges allmänna rösträttsförbund). LÄS MER
