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state building from below in the Nordic countries ca. 1500-1800
The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally, the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favored object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe's northern frontier, bringing 'the people' back into the discussion of state politics, presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialization. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence, operating outside the structures of central government, and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below.
Bringing the people back in. Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500-1800 / Knut Dørum, Mats Hallenberg, Kimmo Katajala -- The historical sociology of politics as the study of people, power and agency / Michael Braddick -- The ethics of rule and the pragmatics of resistance: Laurentius Paulinus Gothus and Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla on good governance and popular politics / Malte Griesse & Miriam Rönnqvist -- Conflict, state formation and literacy / Magne Njåstad -- Statebreaking from below: recognizing the state in wartime rebellions / Sari Nauman -- Pride of the communes: social change in the military organization of sixteenth century Sweden / Martin Neuding Skoog -- Insurgents of the Oldenburg state in Torstensson's War 1643-1645: elements of bargaining, protestation, and independent action / Olli Bäckström -- Households and state-building in early modern Denmark: a disobedient child / Nina Javette Koefoed -- Policing the guilds: the implementation of guild reforms during Danish absolutism / Jörgen Mührmann-Lund -- How soldiers' women built early modern states: Stockholm 1544-1635 / Martin Andersson -- The political strategies and agency of the Norwegian nobility in the Oldenburg conglomerate state 1537-1661 / Erik Opsahl -- An improvised empire: imperial ambitions and local realities in Danish-East India trade (1620-1650) / Kaarle Wirta -- The state conquers a feudal enclave: Ängsö 1690-1710 / Joakim Scherp -- From subjects to rural citizens? The peasantry and political participation in the late eighteenth-century Swedish realm / Ella Viitaniemi -- Houses divided? the local churches as spaces of contention in 18th and early 19th century Norway / Trond Bjerkås -- Local space building as state building? mediating clergy on the Russo-Swedish borderland / Jenni Merovuo -- Contested customs: Swedish towns and the Private Customs Company, 1726-1762 / Magnus Linnarsson -- Criticism of government in Norway c. 1770-1814 / Knut Dørum -- The people and the state. Nordic paths in state formation, 1500-1800 / Marjolein 'tHart.
edited by Knut Dørum, Mats Hallenberg, and Kimmo Katajala.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Routledge research in early modern history