Format:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780754698661
Content:
The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and America. Presenting the latest research on political culture in Scandinavia, this volume with twenty-seven contributions focuses on four key aspects: the crisis of monarchy; the transformation in political debate; the emerging influence of commercial interest in politics; and the shifting boundaries of political participation. Generously illustrated throughout, this book will introduce non-Scandinavian readers to developments in the Nordic countries during the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries and both complement and challenge research into the political cultures of Europe and America.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- General Introduction -- SECTION I: THE CRISIS AND RENEWAL OF MONARCHY -- 1.1 The Crisis and Renewal of the Monarchy: Introduction -- 1.2 The Monarchy in the Swedish Age of Liberty (1719-1772) -- 1.3 The Image of Kingship in Sweden, 1772-1809 -- 1.4 Struensee and the Political Culture of Absolutism -- 1.5 The Great, the Pages and the End of Eighteenth-Century Danish Court Culture -- 1.6 Postal Censorship and the Control of Public Sentiment in Late Absolutist Denmark -- SECTION II: THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICAL DEBATE -- 2.1 The Transformation of Political Debate: Introduction -- 2.2 Gradual Reconsiderations of Lutheran Conceptions of Politics -- 2.3 Aristocratic Notions of Liberty and Patriotism in the Age of Liberty -- 2.4 Freedom of the Press and Social Equality in Sweden, 1766-1772 -- 2.5 The Politics of Publishing: Freedom of the Press in Denmark, 1770-1773 -- 2.6 The Transformation of Danish Monarchism in the Age of Enlightenment -- 2.7 Continuity and Change in the Language of Politics at the Swedish Diet, 1769-1810 -- 2.8 Marriage, Family and Gender in Swedish Political Language, 1750-1820 -- SECTION III: COMMERCIAL INTERESTS AND POLITICS IN SCANDINAVIA, 1730-1815 -- 3.1 Commercial Interests and Politics in Scandinavia, 1730-1815: Introduction -- 3.2 The Politics of Commerce in Sweden, 1730-1770 -- 3.3 The Swedish Diet as a Forum for Gathering Commercial and Political Information -- 3.4 Political Practices among Merchants in Denmark and Norway in the Period of Absolutism -- 3.5 Iceland under British Protection during the Napoleonic Wars -- SECTION IV: THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- 4.1 The Shifting Boundaries of Political Participation: Introduction.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409400196
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409400196
Language:
English
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