Sweden in the eighteenth-century world : provincial cosmopolitans / edited by Göran Rydén.
"Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden's central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new idea...
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Table of Contents:
- Provincial Cosmopolitanism : An Introduction / Göran Rydén
- Where in the World was Sweden? : A Brief Guide for Foreigners / Chris Evans
- Language
- The Language of Cosmos : The Cosmopolitan Endeavour of Universal Languages / David Dunér
- Cultivation
- Swedish Agriculture in the Cosmopolitan Eighteenth century / Mats Morell
- Taste
- Travelling and the Formation of Taste : The European Journey of Bengt Ferrner and Jean Lefebure, 1758-1763 / Lars Berglund
- Liberty
- Eskilstuna Fristad : The Beginnings of an Urban Experiment / Göran Rydén
- Image
- Prints and Attraction in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm / Sonya Peterson
- Faith
- In Defence of Freedom : Christianity and the Pursuit of Human Happiness in Anders Chydenius's World / Carola Nordbäck
- Peace
- Sweden's Neutrality and the Eighteenth-Century Inter-State System / Leos Müller
- Colour
- Runaway Colours : Recognisability and Categorisation in Sweden and Early America, 1750-1820 / Karin Sennefelt
- Manners
- When Sweden Harboured Idlers : Gender and Luxury in Public Debates, c. 1760-1830 / Karin Hassan Jansson
- Slavery
- A Divided Space : Subjects and Others in the Swedish West Indies during the Late Eighteenth Century / Holger Weiss
- Compassion
- A World of Fiction : Bengt Lidner and Global Compassion in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Anna Cullhed
- Sveaborg and the End of the Swedish Cosmopolitan Eighteenth Century : An Epilogue / Göran Rydén and Holger Weiss.