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Bringing the People Back In: State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500–1800

I: Bringing the people back in Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500–1800 The historical sociology of politics as the study of people, power, and agency II: The war, riots, and protests The ethics of rule and the pragmatics of resistance Conflict, state formation and literacy Statebreaking from below Pride of the communes III: Bringing order to the state from below Households and state-building in early modern Denmark Policing the guilds How soldiers’ women built early modern states IV: Elites in state formation From state elite to regional elite An improvised empire The state conquers a feudal enclave V: Formation of the public sphere in the 18th century From subjects to rural citizens?Houses divided?Local space building as state building?Contested customs Criticism of government in Norway c. 1770–1814 VI: State building from below in perspective The people and the state

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Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500–1800
Knut Dorum, Mats Hallenberg & Kimmo Katajala 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 favoured object of study for academic historians. From the late 20th century,...
(Bringing the People Back In: State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500–1800)
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State Building and Good Governance. The Role of External Actors
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State Building or New Modes of Governance?
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Strategies of State Building
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State Building in Areas of Limited Statehood
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Bringing the people back in
Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500–1800 Knut Dorum, Mats Hallenberg & Kimmo Katajala 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...
(Bringing the People Back In: State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500–1800)
Local space building as state building?
Mediating clergy on the Russo-Swedish borderland Jenni Merovuo Introduction After the Russo-Swedish war of 1741-1743, the new borderland needed to be established and the state power redefined. The new state border between Sweden and Russia intersected several parishes dividing them between the two states....
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