Sökning: "Swedish 20th century landscape"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish 20th century landscape.

  1. 1. Såsom en människa : Kristustolkningar i svensk 1900-talskonst

    Författare :Elisabeth Stengård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jesus; Bibliska motiv i konsten;

    Sammanfattning : The mass production of Christian art in the 19th century, including all the reproductions of the Christ by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, has contributed to a cliché that many persons perceive as a true portrait of the historical Jesus, even though it ultimately stands, not for a historical probability, but for the classical ideal of noble beauty. The thesis takes up representations of Christ by a score of Swedish artists. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Svea folk i Babels land : Svensk identitet i Kanada under 1900-talets första hälft

    Författare :Carina Rönnqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Swedish immigrants; cultural boundaries; ethnicity; nationalism; identity; Canadian immigration history; gender history; language shift; ethnic press; religion; secular societies; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light upon the construction of identity within the Swedish- Canadian immigrant group during the first half of the 20th century. The most important sources of ethnic and nationalistic influences this study scrutinizes are the homeland Sweden, Swedish-America, Scandinavian-Canada and the Canadian host society. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Trygghet som handelsvara : Privat folkförsäkring i det framväxande välfärdssamhället 1900–1950

    Författare :Alf Sjöblom; Orsi Husz; Nils Edling; Niklas Stenlås; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Industrial Life Insurance; Industrial Assurance; Insurance; Welfare; Welfare State; Social Policy; Marketing; Governmentality; Social Engineering; Actuarial; Sweden; 20th Century; Trust; Agency System; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : Industrial Life Insurance (ILI) was introduced in Sweden in the beginning of the 1900s. Following models already used in the United Kingdom and the United States, this insurance was specifically aimed at manual labourers, promising pension savings and compensation to surviving relatives. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Bonden och landskapet : Ägares och brukares relationer till markerna och förutsättningarna för en uthållig markanvändning

    Författare :Marie Stenseke; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; landscape changes; farmers; sustainable agriculture; local perspective; Social geography; Swedish 20th century landscape; Socialgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Farmers and Landscape. Owners and farmers relations to their land, and the prospects for sustainable land use. In a transition towards sustainability, rural land use is of certain interest, owing to the environmental impact of modern farming and forestry, and also to its potential role in a recycling society. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Treeline dynamics in short and long term perspectives : observational and historical evidence from the southern Swedish Scandes

    Författare :Lisa Öberg; Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson; Leif Kullman; Ulf Segerström; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii; Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris; climate change; monitoring; treeline advance; clones; megafossils; immigration; Holocene; cryptic refugia; Swedish Scandes; Terrestrial ecology; Terrestrisk ekologi;

    Sammanfattning : Against the background of past, recent and future climate change, the present thesis addresses elevational shifts of alpine treelines in the Swedish Scandes. By definition, treeline refers to the elevation (m a.s.l. LÄS MER