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Making a Living, Making a Difference
What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the …
CBA vol 59: Aloneliness
In a world where everyone seems to be moving into the forced crowd that is the City (more than 50% of the entire population of earth live on the 2% surface that is urbanized, in …
Domestic Secrets
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's …
Guises of Power
Understanding how power works has always been regarded as a central responsibility for researchers in the social sciences. To look upon the issue in a geographically comparative …
The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400–1900
Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original …
Ironmaking in Sweden and Russia : a survey of the social organisation of iron production before 1900
The idea of an industrial revolution has frequently been challenged during the last decades. The commodity production which took place in the countryside and within the frame of …