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- Ekström, Simon, 1966-, et al.
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Sverige och havet : en introduktion
- 2016
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In: Sjövägen till Sverige. - Malmö : Universus Press. - 9789187439278 ; , s. 11-21
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Facing the Sea : Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies
- 2021
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The sea has many faces. Some are calm and welcoming, others ferocious and death-dealing. For centuries of human history, the sea has seen peaceful trade and war, life and death and failure.In Facing the Sea we meet Swedish experiences of the sea. We can read about smugglers from the Åland Islands, about British privateers seizing Swedish ships, and about Swedish naval officers defending the honour of the flag. We also learn what a disaster at sea or the salvage of a shipwreck can say about past and present societies, and why more and more Swedes choose burial at sea for their loved ones. We hear the voices of children who made the dangerous escape to Sweden in wartime by crossing the Baltic Sea.These are a few of the stories written by the eleven researchers who present a smorgasbord of recent work carried out at the Centre for Maritime Studies (CEMAS) at Stockholm University. The contributors are historians, ethnologists, and maritime archaeologists associated with the centre.
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- Fryksén, Gustaf, et al.
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Konsulsfamiljen Tulin af Tunisien 1779-1882
- 2015
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In: I främmande hamn : Den svenska och svensk-norska konsulstjänsten 1700–1985 - Den svenska och svensk-norska konsulstjänsten 1700–1985. - 9789187439179 ; , s. 153-187
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- Hasselberg, Ylva, et al.
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Åter till historiens nätverk
- 2002
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In: Sociala nätverk och fält. - Uppsala : Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet. - 915061553X ; , s. 7-31
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- Hellman, Lisa, 1984-
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Navigating the foreign quarters : Everyday life of the Swedish East India Company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830
- 2015
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis analyses the everyday life of the Swedish East India company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830. Through a focus on everyday practices, analysed on the basis of ethnicity, class and gender, I show how the Swedes and other foreigners led their everyday life in a constant interplay between adaptation to and transgression of Chinese rules.In Canton, many everyday practices taken for granted in Europe, or in European colonies, were changed or made inaccessible to the foreigners by the Chinese authorities. This thesis highlights the daily practices of globalisation in Canton, a place not dominated by Europeans. The sources are a combination of correspondence, travel writings, journals and court protocols written by European, North American and Chinese men and women; this multilingual source material mirrors the multi-ethnic composition of the foreign quarters.The thesis combines historical studies on everyday life, globalisation, port cities, East India companies, Canton, Macao and intercultural interactions, and does so through five case studies: how the local groups were experienced and formed, the spatial construction of Canton and Macao, the local communication, material practices and the establishment of trust. Interaction between various foreign groups was as important for everyday life as contacts between the foreign and Chinese groups; the fact that the foreign groups were numerous thus had crucial effects on life in the foreign quarters. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Chinese authorities used the segregation between groups on the basis of gender and ethnicity as a control mechanism. In addition, four snapshots focusing on individual traders show how the foreign quarters changed over time. The personal relations went from short-term to long-term and the Swedes were increasingly involved in the lives of local men and women. In the early nineteenth century, the Chinese control was increasingly questioned.The basis for most restrictions of everyday practices was the Chinese authorities’ will to uphold an ethnic division: that between Chinese and non-Chinese. Additionally, class was constructed both within groups of foreigners and groups of Chinese, sometimes jointly. Gender proved to be a particularly fruitful analytical concept for this thesis. I show not only that the gender segregation and the discursive construction of Chinese and foreign men and women were crucial for how the intercultural interaction was perceived, but also the importance of face-to-face meetings with foreign and Chinese women. Furthermore, many everyday practices were consistently intertwined with the construction of masculinity in Chinese, European as well as North American groups in Canton.The present study differs from previous research in its focus on everyday life rather than economic and diplomatic aspects; there are no previous studies on groups, space, communication, materiality or trust in the foreign quarters, nor any analyses of class, ethnicity and gender. Previous research has focused on large, colonial actors. In contrast, the Swedish East India Company employees’ time in Canton constitutes a meeting in which the local power far outweighed the foreign one. This study of daily life in the foreign quarters demonstrates a need to rephrase, and rethink, the framework for intercultural interaction between Europe and Asia, the established views of early modern power relations as well as the view of how everyday life was led in homes away from home.
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- Hodacs, Hanna, et al.
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Chests, Tubs and Lots of Tea the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760
- 2015
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In: Goods from the East, 1600–1800. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781349562183 - 9781137403940 ; , s. 277-293
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- More than 1,100 tons of tea were put up for sale in Gothenburg in August 1754. It was the largest quantity sold at a Swedish East India Company (SEIC) auction before the Seven Years’ War. The tea cargo was packed in 14,499 chests of various sizes, 380 tubs and more than 5,000 canisters; tea was by far the bulkiest of goods shipped to Gothenburg from Canton. All but a fifth of the tea in the 1754 shipment was the cheap black type called Bohea. The logistics of this trade involved moving these large quantities of Bohea tea from the Wuyi Mountain area in southeastern China where it was produced, to Canton, across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, and to the Northwestern fringe of Europe. This would be daunting enough, but the journey did not end in Gothenburg — the headquarters of the SEIC, on the West Coast of Sweden. After the auction, the chests were loaded onto smaller ships destined for places including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Ostend.
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