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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade ordet aristocracy.

  1. 11. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934

    Författare :Moa Matthis; Heidi Hansson; Claire Squires; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; marketability; Book-of-the-Month-Club; consumer culture; commercialism; colonial Kenya; feudal ideal; aristocracy; identity; malleability; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Adel i förvandling : Adliga strategier och identiteter i 1800-talets borgerliga samhälle

    Författare :Göran Norrby; Torkel Jansson; Gudrun Andersson; Torbjörn Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; social history; aristocracy; nobility; bourgeois society; social reproduction; symbolic capital; reconversion strategies; marriage patterns; education; professions; social identity; 19th century; Sweden; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how well the Swedish nobility succeeded in adapting to the structural changes in society and state during the 19th century.Three major issues are investigated. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721

    Författare :Fabian Persson; Eva Österberg; MJ Rodriguez-Salgado; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; aristocracy; informal power; patronage; prosopography; Court; royal household; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History; Historia;

    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

  5. 14. Den dolda offentligheten : Kvinnlighetens sfärer i 1800-talets svenska högreståndskultur

    Författare :Marie Steinrud; Gösta Arvastson; Gudrun Andersson; Inger Lövkrona; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aristocracy; nobility; public; private; gender; 19th Century; Sweden; Adel; kvinnor; offentligt; privat; genus; 1800-talet; Sverige; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an analysis of the every day life and culture of Swedish noble women during the 19th century from the perspective of the public-private dichotomy. The aim of the dissertation is to show how the dichotomy affected women’s lives and how gender differences were created and preserved according to the notion of the dichotomy. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Kloster och aristokrati. Nunnor, munkar och gåvor i det svenska samhället till 1300-talets mitt : Monasticism and Aristocracy. Nuns, Monks and Gifts i Swedish Society until the Middle of the Fourteenth Century

    Författare :Catharina Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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