The state as master: Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650–1780 1526121409, 9781526121400

We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the earl

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The state as master: Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650–1780
1526121409, 9781526121400

In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the fr

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In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the fr

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist marke

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The author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the trans

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Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the

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What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? Ho

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This volume is a major contribution to the growing debate on state formation. Its approach is unusual. In colonial times

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