Sökning: "statsbildning"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet statsbildning.
1. Kungen, fogdarna och riket : Lokalförvaltning och statsbyggande under tidig Vasatid
Sammanfattning : The growth of the 16th century Swedish state is studied through the local organization created by Gustavus Vasa. The state is viewed as an organization, a collective agent, which may function as a formidable instrument of power for those who can control it. LÄS MER
2. Vadstena krigsmanshus : En studie av den svenska kronans inrättning för sårade och gamla soldater cirka 1640–1780
Sammanfattning : Den här avhandlingen handlar det underhåll till sårade och gamla soldater som den svenskastatsmakten organiserade under tidigmodern tid. Undersökningen tar sin utgångspunkt i den tid närstatsmakten började organisera mer omfattande hjälp för soldater, vilket var slutet på Gustav Vasasoch under Erik XIV:s regeringstid i mitten av 1500-talet. LÄS MER
3. Mildhet och saktmod : Den svenska konglomeratstaten och Jämtland efter freden i Brömsebro 1645
Sammanfattning : The focus of this book is the cession of the province of Jämtland from Denmark-Norway to Sweden after the Peace of Brömsebro in 1645. My purpose is to examine what bearing the steps taken to incorporate the newly conquered territory into Sweden had on the state formation already underway. LÄS MER
4. Konstruktionen av en stormakt : Kungamakt, skattebönder och statsbildning 1595-1640
Sammanfattning : State building has traditionally been viewed strictly as the prerogative of rulers. However, recent studies have been focusing more on the perspective of state building from below. Princes and central administrators needed the active support of their leading subjects. In most parts of Europe this meant the nobility and/or the rich merchant groups. LÄS MER
5. The Money of Monarchs : The Importance of Non-Tax Revenue for Autocratic Rule in Early Modern Sweden
Sammanfattning : According to a venerable argument about the formation of political regimes in historical Europe, taxation goes hand in hand with representation, as financial needs forced rulers to trade rights for revenue. In this dissertation I explore the reverse assumption, asking whether it is the case that non-taxation went hand in hand with non-representation? I argue that early modern rulers who had access to what I conceptualize as ‘proprietary revenue’—including profits from landownership, natural resource extraction, state-owned enterprise, and colonial plunder—could use such revenue to concentrate political authority in their own hands and rule as autocrats. LÄS MER
