Format:
1 online resource (186 pages)
ISBN:
9781526121394
Series Statement:
Gender in history
Content:
A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Serving others - serving the state -- State formation on the ground -- State formation as working-class and gender history -- The book -- Notes -- 1 State formation and state administration -- State formation as a process of learning and negotiation -- State administration and customs administration -- Scandinavian small towns and state servants -- Methods and sources -- Notes -- 2 Servants in the front line -- Fighting in public -- The right to live in peace -- Stealing -- Making noise -- Protecting state servants and subjects from each other -- Causes of animosity -- Households in the front line -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Families in service -- A makeshift economy -- The market in help -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The struggling master -- Controlling space, controlling officials -- The role of inspectors -- Control through the courts -- Fluid boundaries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 His role and hers -- Positions of authority -- State servant identities -- Social differences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion: Service, gender and the early modern state -- Women's work -- Service -- The state as master -- Notes -- Appendix -- Archival sources -- Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm (KB) -- Landsarkivet, Göteborg (GLA) -- Landsarkivet, Uppsala (ULA) -- Lantmäteriet, Gävle -- Riksarkivet, Marieberg, Stockholm (RA) -- Svenska Akademiens Ordboks arkiv, Lund -- Published primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Unpublished source -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm (KB) -- Landsarkivet, Göteborg (GLA) -- Landsarkivet, Uppsala (ULA) -- Lantmäteriet, Gävle -- Riksarkivet, Marieberg, Stockholm (RA) -- Svenska Akademiens Ordboks arkiv, Lund -- Published primary sources.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781526100641
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schweden
;
Staat
;
Entwicklung
;
Stadt
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Geschichte 1650-1780
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