Sökning: "Topographical descriptions"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Topographical descriptions.
1. Fäderneslandets rätta beskrivning : Mötet mellan antikvarisk forskning och ekonomisk nyttokult i 1700-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis is to deepen our understanding the meaning of the term "fatherland" as it was used in eighteenth- century Sweden. It is commonly known that the term could represent a local or cultural community as well as a national and political one. The Swedish realm consisted of several parts of which Finland was one important part. LÄS MER
2. Officeren som arkitekt och konstnär i det svenska 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : In the study of 19th century, Swedish art history, military artists are repeatedly discovered, often as sketch-artists or painters, but also in their capacity as directors of the Board of Public Building or architects. Within picture art, these so-called "military painters" areconsidered to be typical representatives of the widespread amateurism of the century. LÄS MER
3. Fäderneslandets kännedom : om svenska ortsbeskrivningsprojekt och ämbetsmäns folklivsskildringar under 1700- och 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : During the period c. 1720-1900 a large quantity of descriptions of rural areas in Sweden were set down on paper. Some 700 local descriptions were printed at the time or have appeared in print during the twentieth century. The most common geographical unit for local descriptions is the parish. LÄS MER
4. Den sjunde världsdelen : Västgötar och Västergötland 1646-1771. En identitetshistoria
Sammanfattning : This thesis considers regional identity in early-modern Sweden, taking its case from the province (landskap) of Västergötland 1646–1771. The aim is to investigate verbal expressions of regional identity. LÄS MER
5. Det förlorade paradiset. En studie i Göran Tunströms Sunneromaner
Sammanfattning : The writings of Göran Tunström (1937 – 2000) are closely linked with his birthplace, Sunne in Värmland. His four ’Sunne Novels’, De heliga geograferna (1973; ’The Holy Geographers’), Guddöttrarna (1976; ’The Goddaughters’), Juloratoriet (1983; The Christmas Oratorio, 1995) and Tjuven (1986; ’The Thief’) form the subject of this thesis. LÄS MER