Det stormaktstida svenska imperiets uppgång och fall, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Det stormaktstida svenska imperiets uppgång och fall, 7.5 högskolepoäng

HI008G, The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire

Andersson, Gundrun & Ulväng, Göran, Mahogany, Sugar and Porcelain: Global Goods for a Swedish Aristocratic Family in the Eighteenth Century, in Stobart, Jon (ed.), Global Goods and the Country House.: Comparative perspectives, 1650‑1800 (London: UCL Press, 2023), pp. 27‑52.

Evans, Chris & Rydén, Göran, “From Gammelbo Bruk to Calabar: Swedish Iron in an Expanding Atlantic Economy”, in Scandinavian colonialism and the rise of modernity. Small time agents in a global arena, ed.

Hallenberg, Mats, “For the wealth of the realm. The transformation of the public sphere in Swedish politics, c. 1434‑1650” Scandinavian Journal of History 37:5 (2012), p. 557‑577.

Holm, Julia, How to Dress a Female King: Manifestations of Gender and Power in the Wardrobe of Christina of Sweden, in Griffey, Erin (ed.), Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe. Fashioning Women (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), pp. 183‑206.

Knutsson, Anna & Hodacs, Hanna, “When Coffee was Banned: Strategies of Labour and Leisure Among Stockholm’s Poor Women, 1794‑1796 and 1799‑1802”, Scandinavian Economic History Review 71:2 (2023), pp. 176‑198.

Lennersand, Marie et. al, “Gender, Work, and the Fiscal‑Military State”, in Ågren, Maria (ed.), Making a Living, Making a Difference. Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 178‑203.

Lindegren, Jan, “Men, Money and Means”, in War and competition between states, ed.Phillippe Contamine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 129‑162.

Lindkvist, Thomas, Sjöberg, Maria, Susanna Hedenborg & Kvarnström, Lars, A concise history of Sweden from the Viking Age to the present (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2018) p. 13‑159.

Nordin, Jonas Monié & Sven Olofsson, “Voices of the forests. Eviction, control, and the birth of the ‘Parish Lapp’ system in early modern Sweden”, Scandinavian Journal of History 48:3 (2023) p. 401‑426.

Seppel, Marten, “The semiotics of serfdom. How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561‑1806” Scandinavian Journal of History 45:1 (2020), p. 48‑70.

Sjöberg, Maria, “Women in campaigns 1550‑1850. Household and homosociality in the Swedish army” The History of the Family (16:3) 2011, p. 204‑216.

Stadin, Kekke, “The masculine image of a great power. Representations of Swedish imperial power c. 1630‑1690”, Scandinavian Journal of History 30:1 (2005), p. 61‑82.

Thomasson, Fredrik, “Thirty‑Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets. Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800”, in Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade, ed. Holger Weiss (Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 280‑305.

Total amount of pages: 410

Literature for the book report, choose one of the books below:

Alm, Mikael, Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth‑Century Sweden. Fashioning Difference (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Blomqvist, Olof, I want to stay. Local community and prisoners of war at the dawn of the eighteenth century, Stockholm: Department of History, Stockholm University (2023).

Forss, Charlotta, Mapping the North. Myth, Exploration, Encounter (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025).

Fur, Gunlög, Colonialism in the Margins. Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland, (Leiden: Brill, 2006).

Hellman, Lisa, This house is not a home. European everyday life in Canton and Macao 1730‑1830, Leiden: Brill (2019).

Ihalainen, Pasi, Agents of the people. Democracy and popular sovereignty in British and Swedish parliamentary and public debates, 1734‑1800, Leiden: Brill (2010).

Knutsson, Anna, Shadow economies in the globalising world. Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766‑1806, London: Routledge (2023).

Laitinen, Riitta, Order, Materiality, and Urban Space in the Early Modern Kingdom of Sweden (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).

Miettinen, Riikka, Suicide, Law, and Community in Early Modern Sweden (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Nilsson, Hammar Anna & Svante Norrhem, Serving AristocracyNegotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2025).

Persson, Fabian, Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021).

Pihlajamäki, Heikki, Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630‑1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

Pålsson, Ale, Our side of the water. Political culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800‑1825, Stockholm: Department of History, Stockholm University (2016).

Roberts, Michael, The Swedish imperial experience, 1560‑1718, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (1979).

Sandin, Bengt, Schooling and State Formation in Early Modern Sweden (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Sennefelt, Karin, The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600‑1720 (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2026).

Ågren, Maria, Domestic secrets. Women and property in Sweden, 1600‑1857, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press (2009).

Ågren, Maria, The state as master. Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650‑1780, Manchester: Manchester University Press (2017).