1st Edition
Administration, Mobility, and Knowledge across Borders, 1500–1800 Swedish Statecraft in a European Context
Content
1. Moving Like a State: Knowledge, Mobility, and the Practices of Statecraft, 1600–1800 – Jansson and Orrje
2. Swedish student intelligencers in Germany 1530–1560 – Martin Neuding Skoog
3. The mobile official’s knowing body: cameral work, travelling, and administrative knowledge in the Swedish mining administration 1600–50 – Jacob Orrje
4. Land Surveying, Legibility, and State Power in Early Modern Sweden, 1628–1699 - Olof Karsvall
5. At arm’s length? Medicine, healthcare and the state from the Reformation to 1800 - Hjalmar Fors
6. Bad Milk, Tired Horses, and Shipwrecks: The Circulation of Knowledge and its Obstructions - Carl Wennerlind
7. Tabulating reindeer and plants: bioprospecting Linnaean naturalists in mid-eighteenth-century Sápmi - Hanna Hodacs and Linda Andersson Burnett
8. Manufacturing improvement: craftwork, mobility, and administrative knowledge in eighteenth-century Sweden – Jansson
9. From timber to tables: mathematical rationality and naval administration in eighteenth-century Sweden - Johan Alvarsson
10. Purchasing and transporting gifts for North Africa at the end of the eighteenth century - Fredrik Kämpe
Biography
Måns Jansson is a researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden. In his current research, he explores workforce mobility and technical knowledge in the early modern period.
Jacob Orrje is a senior lecturer at the Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden. His current research examines digital history and infrastructures of early modern knowledge circulation.
