Sökning: "colonial America"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden colonial America.
1. Border-Crossing Commemorations : Entangled Histories of Swedish Settling in America
Sammanfattning : Different groups from both sides of the Atlantic have since the 1930s come together to commemorate histories of Swedish settling in America. They have celebrated the founding of the New Sweden colony in the Delaware Valley (1638–1655), and the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Swedish pioneers in the Mississippi Valley. LÄS MER
2. Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912
Sammanfattning : Criticizing one-empire approaches, calls to apply much-needed transnational perspectives and methodologies to colonial history have recently emerged. This groundbreaking scholarship has already revealed that the competition between different European empires after 1850 has typically been overemphasized; in fact, a transnational perspective reveals extensive cooperation between the “great powers” of the age, along with myriad examples of exchanges and transfers of colonial knowledge. LÄS MER
3. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. LÄS MER
4. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. LÄS MER
5. Foráneos y arraigados : Migración, inclusión y exclusión social de neerlandeses y alemanes en Nueva España, 1560-1650
Sammanfattning : Este trabajo estudia la evolución y el desarrollo de la comunidad neerlandesa y alemana que formó parte de la sociedad del virreinato de la Nueva España entre 1560 y 1650. Trata sobre las formas de inclusión y exclusión social, tanto al interior del grupo como con los otros agentes sociales en las relaciones verticales y horizontales a su alrededor. LÄS MER
