Bringing the People Back In: State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500–1800
I: Bringing the people back inRepertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500–1800The historical sociology of politics as the study of people, power, and agencyII: The war, riots, and protestsThe ethics of rule and the pragmatics of resistanceConflict, state formation and literacyStatebreaking from belowPride of the communesIII: Bringing order to the state from belowHouseholds and state-building in early modern DenmarkPolicing the guildsHow soldiers’ women built early modern statesIV: Elites in state formationFrom state elite to regional eliteAn improvised empireThe state conquers a feudal enclaveV: Formation of the public sphere in the 18th centuryFrom subjects to rural citizens?Houses divided?Local space building as state building?Contested customsCriticism of government in Norway c. 1770–1814VI: State building from below in perspectiveThe people and the state
