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  1. 36. Mechanicus : Performing an Early Modern Persona

    Författare :Jacob Orrje; H. Otto Sibum; Fors Hjalmar; Thomas Kaiserfeld; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mechanics; performance; virtue; persona; mathematics; self fashioning; education; masculinity; age; oeconomy; cameralism; Sweden; eighteenth century; intergenerational relationships; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies mechanics as a means of making men, rather than machines. Drawing on Swedish sources from 1700–50, it approaches mechanics as an exercise of a virtuous subject, known to his contemporaries as the “mechanicus”. LÄS MER

  3. 37. Pestens gåta : farsoter i det tidiga 1700-talets Skåne

    Författare :Bodil Persson; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; pestilential fevers; diagnosis; symptoms; pattern of distribution; demography; causes of death; burial records; epizootics; rats; rodents; lice; fleas; regional and local analysis; scurvy; epidemic typhus fever; measles; Plague; smallpox; plague vectors; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; Public health; epidemiology; Folkhälsa; epidemiologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with Sweden’s last outbreak of the plague with focus on Skåne, where the epidemic raged for three years - from late autumn 1710 to late autumn 1713. This was a time of war, crop failures as well as other simultaneously occurring epidemics. LÄS MER

  4. 38. Det svaga könet? : kön och vuxendödlighet i 1800-talets Sverige

    Författare :Sam Willner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; alcohol; causes of death; gender; marital status; maternal mortality; sex differential mortality; 19th Century Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with mortality among adults in 19th century Sweden. Ever since the mid-eighteenth century there has been a pattern of excessive male mortality in practically all ages. The gap between the mortality curves of men and women have, however, varied greatly in time and space. LÄS MER

  5. 39. The two faces of smallpox : a disease and its prevention in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden

    Författare :Peter Sköld; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epidemiologic transition; historical demography; infectious disease; inoculation; mortality; public health; smallpox; Sweden; vaccination;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive measures that were used against it: inoculation during the eighteenth and vaccination during the nineteenth Century. Between 1750 and 1800 300,000 children died from smallpox in Sweden. LÄS MER

  7. 40. Arbeit am Zufall : Die Formierung des modernen deutschen Romans im 18. Jahrhundert

    Författare :Fredrik Renard; Elisabeth Herrmann; Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre; Uwe Wirth; Alexandra Strohmaier; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern German Novel; Chance; Contingency; Genre Poetics; New Formalism; Christoph Martin Wieland; Karl Philipp Moritz; Johann Wolfgang Goethe; German; tyska;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with the relationship between chance and the form of the German novel during its modernization in the eighteenth century. In novels by Wieland, Moritz and Goethe, ‘chance’ poses a complex of problems that the novels process in the course of their narrations and that in turn also influences how the German novel itself, as a new genre in the late eighteenth century, began to gain definition. LÄS MER