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Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century book cover

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Houses, Families, and Cohabitation Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century

By Dag Lindström, Göran Tagesson Copyright 2025
382 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.   The empirical focus of this book is on Swedish towns, but it also addresses more general... Read more

1.      Houses, families, and cohabitation: Swedish towns in the eighteenth century

2.      Early Modern towns in the south-east of Sweden

3.      Houses, constructing and rebuilding: the life-cycle of houses

4.      Living together: The dynamics of ownership, households and cohabitation

5.      Life biographies and the transformations of urban space and urban life

6.      In the quest for houses, families, and cohabitation

Biography

Dag Lindström is Professor of History at Uppsala University. His research covers various dimensions of urban social and cultural history. In 2021 he edited Micro Geographies of the Western City, c. 1750–1900 together with Alida Clemente and Jon Stobart.

 

Göran Tagesson is Associate Professor of Historical Archaeology, and researcher at the Department of History, Uppsala University. His main research interest is urban and buildings archaeology. His latest book: ‘For my Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode’: Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment (2020), together with Per Cornell, Mrk Gardiner, Liz Thomas and Katherine Weikert.

 

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