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001			https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30439
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020			_a9789522229540;9789522229533
024	7		_a10.21435/sfh.23 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
072		7	_a1DNS _2bicssc
072		7	_aHBLH _2bicssc
072		7	_aJF _2bicssc
072		7	_aJPHC _2bicssc
100	1		_aHakanen, Marko _4edt
700	1		_aKaronen, Petri _4edt
700	1		_aHakanen, Marko _4oth
700	1		_aKaronen, Petri _4oth
245	1	0	_aPersonal Agency and Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
260			_aHelsinki _bFinnish Literature Society / SKS _c2017
300			_a1 electronic resource (306 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_a"Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the early modern ‘powerstate’. The contributors approach Sweden’s rise to greatness from the point of view of personal agency. In early modern studies, agency has long remained in the shadow of the study of structures and institutions. This novel approach enables us to expose the difficulties, setbacks and false steps that the administration had to deal with. State building was a more diversified and personalized process than has previously been assumed. Numerous individuals were also crucially important actors in the process, and that development itself was not straightforward progression at the macro-level but was intertwined with lower-level actors. Each chapter in this volume employs partially different methods depending on the source material and subject. This means that both qualitative and quantitative material is combined, different ways of making sense of it (i.e. research traditions) are brought together and a multi-method design is used in analyzing source material. One of the central methods is the systematic use of previous biographical research. We want to give the individuals and their actions under discussion a background that reflects the contemporary structures of individual life cycles. With the existing biographical research, it is possible to create a comprehensive set of data that provides the general outlines of individual lives or the career tracks of various estates or social groups, and even to construct collective biographies of certain groups."
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aSweden _2bicssc
650		7	_aEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 _2bicssc
650		7	_aSociety & culture: general _2bicssc
650		7	_aConstitution: government & the state _2bicssc
653			_astate formation
653			_aadministrative reform
653			_aearly modern age
653			_asweden
653			_aagency
653			_aBailiff
653			_aFinland
653			_aHelsinki
653			_aRiksråd
653			_aStockholm
653			_aTurku
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30886/1/641487.pdf _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30886/1/641487.pdf _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30886/1/641487.pdf _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30886/1/641487.pdf _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30439 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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