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Title: |
Regional Integration in Early Modern Scandinavia |
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| Edited by: |
Finn-Einar Aliassen, Jorgen Mikkelsen, Bjorn Poulsen |
| ISBN10-13: |
8778386586 : 9788778386588 |
| Illustrations: |
tables |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
287 |
| Weight: |
.646 Kg. |
| Published: |
Odense University Press (DK) - January 2001 |
| List Price: |
28.00 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Local history : Northern Europe, Scandinavia |
| In the Nordic countries regions and regionalism have played a central role in politics, administration, economic and cultural life for a long time. The differences in voting behaviour, language, religious views, social structure and attitudes between districts, regions, and provinces within each country are often striking. In addition to these internal regions, there are also greater, transnational regions, cutting across state and national boundaries, and incorporating parts of several present-day states. The heterogeneous body of recent and ongoing research in regional history provides the foundation and raison d'être of the present volume. The editors have brought together a number of the most active and experienced practitioners in this field, inviting them to present some of the most interesting results from their own research and readings in regional history, in a form accessible also to a non-Nordic readership. We decided to concentrate on the early modern period, in a wide sense, ranging from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. This is both the period which seems to be best covered by research and publications, and, even more important, it is a crucial period in the integration of the Nordic regions into wider economic, cultural and political units and networks nationally and internationally: the nation-state, the modern world economy, even civilisation itself! |
| Table of Contents: |
| Historical regions and regional history in the Nordic countries: An introduction; The nature of states and regions: Reflections on territory in Swedish historiography; Regions and regional history in Norway; Middlemen of the regions: Danish peasant shipping from the Middle Ages to c.1650; Trade from Southern East Bothnia from 1560 to c.1600. An analysis of responses to economic stress; Ploughing burghers and trading peasants: The meeting between the European urban economy and Sweden in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Vestfold and Telemark: Two regions in South-Eastern Norway in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Population development and economic reorganisation of Southern Helgeland, 1660-1700; Fairs as periodical regional centres in Denmark, 1600-1900; Merchant trade and fairs in Zealand, c.1750-1810: A study in market economy; Making a regional system work. The Norway trade of Niels Hasselbalch and the other merchants of Randers, 1761-67; Aalborg as a regional centre, 1400-1814; Port towns, privileges, and changing fortunes. Mandal and its hinterland, c.1650-1850; In the shadow of the town: Counter-culture and market economy in Northern and Middle Hordaland in the eighteenth century; Civilising the wilderness: The social and agricultural transformation of West Jutland, 1750-1850. |
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