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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 596 avhandlingar innehållade ordet travel.

  1. 6. Introduction of regional high speed trains : A study of the effects of the Svealand line on the travel market, travel behaviour and accessibility

    Författare :Oskar Fröidh; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :The Svealand line; high speed trains; regional travel; travel behaviour; choice of transport mode; accessibility; TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : The Svealand line opened in 1997 and the services areoperated with regional high speed trains. While the Svealandline was being built, the slow trains that had been inoperation on the old railway between Eskilstuna and Stockholm(a distance of 115 km) were replaced by buses with a highfrequency of service. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Vägar inom räckhåll : Spåren efter resande i det förindustriella bondesamhället

    Författare :Ylva Stenqvist Millde; Gert Magnusson; Anders Andrén; Eva Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Reach; range; roads; travel; institutional; flexibility; outland use; peripheral communities; Ängersjö; Älvros; Enviken; Hälsingland; Dalarna; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the importance of human patterns of movement and interfaces in the local community and the constituents of peripheral forest communities, taking roads and human patterns of movement as the starting point. Questions are raised concerning how people have related to roads and travel - institutionally or flexibly. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Platsens blick : Vetenskapsakademien och den naturalhistoriska resan 1790-1840

    Författare :Pär Eliasson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; apodemics; natural history; Royal Swedish Academy of Science; Swedish Museum of Natural History; plant geography; zoology; Linnaeus; Göran Wahlenberg;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the relationship between travel as a form of knowledge and the natural history pursued at the Royal Academy of Science during the period 1790-1840. Primarily, this dissertation deals with the perception of travel as a form of knowledge which existed at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, though a number of selected journeys are used to illustrate the era's shifting perceptions on travel. LÄS MER

  5. 9. The Second Journey : Travelling in Literary Footsteps

    Författare :Maria Lindgren; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel; travel writing; tourism; guide books; authenticity; intertextuality; influence; recognitions; disappointments; images of home; gender roles; heroism; feminisms; biography; autobiography; museums;

    Sammanfattning : In a time dominated by mass tourism and the search for what has been termed authenticity, travel narratives are again of academic interest. This study seeks to demonstrate how travel writers from the 1980s and 1990s increasingly turn to earlier texts for inspiration and guidance. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Resandets gränser : svenska resenärers skildringar av Ryssland under 1700-talet

    Författare :Maria Nyman; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Travel; travel accounts; encounters; representations; colonial; discourse; gender; class status; Protestant; Russian-orthodox; religions; Siberia; Russia; Europe; Sweden; 18th century.;

    Sammanfattning : Maria Nyman The Borders of travelling. Russia in Swedish travel accounts during the 18th century. The primary objective of this study concerns how culturally created images of the Same and the Other, is expressed in descriptions of a journey, a sojourn someplace else. LÄS MER