Sökning: "england war"

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  1. 1. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

    Författare :Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Bruten brygga : Gunnar Myrdal och Sveriges ekonomiska efterkrigspolitik 1943-1947

    Författare :Örjan Appelqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Swedish social democracy; postwar planning; financial policy; international reconstruction credits; currency policy; Sweden’s National Bank; trade policy; GATT; Sweden’s trade; Anglo-Swedish relations; Swedish- American relations; Swedish-Polish relations; Swedish-Russian trade agreement; monetary policy; industrial policy; keynesianism; international politics; Gunnar Myrdal; Ernst Wigforss; Dag Hammarskjöld.; Gunnar Myrdal; Sveriges ekonomiska efterkrigspolitik; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The political project of Gunnar Myrdal in Sweden’s post-war planning is characterised and its application in different areas of economic policy in the first post-war years is analysed. His participation in the government, ending in 1947 at the time of a currency crisis, is generally regarded as a failure. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Landets SångGudinna : Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna och naturdiktens genrer

    Författare :Alfred Sjödin; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; 18th C Swedish literature; theory of genres; the long poem; Georgic poetry; Pastoral; Epic; Classical Reception; Representation of the Countryside; Literature and War; Hedonism; Moralism; and Sentimentality in 18th C. Literature.;

    Sammanfattning : The long poem Skördarne (The HArvest) by johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750-1818) was an attempt to do for the Swedish what Virgil had don for the Roman Countryside in his Georgics. However, "georgic poetry" was seldom recognised as a distinct genre by the classical system of poetics, and its relation to neighbouring genres were often unclear. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Essays on the Economics of the 1956 Clean Air Act

    Författare :Nanna Fukushima; David Strömberg; Peter Nilsson; Wolfram Schlenker; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental economics; Air pollution; Clean Air Act 1956; Environmental regulation; Infant health; Firm heterogeneity; Firm behaviour; Regulation compliance; Economic history; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three essays in environmental and health economics.The UK Clean Air Act, Black Smoke, and Infant MortalityThis paper estimates the effects of the 1956 UK Clean Air Act on infant mortality. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Glömda gudstecken : från fornkyrklig dopliturgi till allmogens bomärken

    Författare :Tuve Skånberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; signature; Egyptian papyri; baptismal liturgy; Chi Rho monogram; Christogram; Omega; Alpha; Christian symbols; Homeyer; bomärken; Marques de Propriété; Hofmarken; Hausmarken; identification marks; ownership marks; personal marks; Merchant Marks; identity marks; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Sammanfattning : The pioneering academic research on Merchant Marks (also known as identity marks, personal marks, ownership marks, identification marks, Hausmarken, Hofmarken, Marques de Propriété, bomärken) was done by professor Homeyer (1870). Since 1870 there has been an ongoing debate among scholars whether Merchant Marks are simply formed by chance and coincidence, as stated by Rehnberg (1938, 1951), Scheffer (1957) and Nahlén (1992) or whether they are variations of Christian symbols, especially the cross, as stated by Sisson (1929) and Stevenson (1954). LÄS MER