Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World

Provincial Cosmopolitans
Neuauflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6588-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden’s central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new ideas and cultural practices with them. At the same time, Sweden was an agricultural country to a large extent governed by self-subsistence, and - for most - wealth was created within this structure. This volume brings together a group of scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who seek to present a more nuanced and elaborated picture of the Swedish cosmopolitan eighteenth century. Together they paint a picture of Sweden that is more like the one eighteenth-century intellectuals imagined, and help to situate Sweden in histories of cosmopolitanism of the wider world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryden, Goran

Rydén, Göran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Provincial Cosmopolitanism: An Introduction; 2: Where in the World was Sweden? A Brief Guide for Foreigners; Language; 3: The Language of Cosmos: The Cosmopolitan Endeavour of Universal Languages; Cultivation; 4: Swedish Agriculture in the Cosmopolitan Eighteenth Century; Taste; 5: Travelling and the Formation of Taste: The European Journey of Bengt Ferrner and Jean Lefebure 1758–1763; Liberty; 6: Eskilstuna Fristad: The Beginnings of an Urban Experiment; Image; 7: Prints and Attraction in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm; Faith; 8: In Defence of Freedom: Christianity and the Pursuit of Human Happiness in Anders Chydenius' World; Peace; 9: Sweden's Neutrality and the Eighteenth-Century Inter-State System; Colour; 10: Runaway Colours: Recognisability and Categorisation in Sweden and Early America, 1750–1820; Manners; 11: When Sweden Harboured Idlers: Gender and Luxury in Public Debates, c. 1760–1830; Slavery; 12: A Divided Space: Subjects and Others in the Swedish West Indies during the late-Eighteenth Century; Compassion; 13: A World of Fiction: Bengt Lidner and Global Compassion in Eighteenth-Century Sweden; 14: Sveaborg and the End of the Swedish Cosmopolitan Eighteenth Century: An Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Göran Rydén is Professor of Economic History at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden.