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Bringing the People Back In : State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally, the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier, bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics, presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence, operating outside the structures of central government, and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below.
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- Dørum, Knut, 1969-, et al.
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Repertoires of state building from below in the Nordic countries, c. 1500-1800
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bringing the People Back In. - London : Routledge. - 9780367686963 ; , s. 3-22
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter argues that the concept of state building from below may be used as an analytical tool for better understanding of political and social relations in the era before industrialisation. In the Nordic countries, the discussion about the state building process in the 1980s and 1990s produced two conflicting narratives. The early modern period produced new repertoires for collective action and political agency. While this long-term perspective is perfectly valid, we argue that the concept of state building is more relevant for our focus on interactions at the micro level. Erling Sandmo has argued that early modern society should be analysed as a permanent public sphere, where ordinary people interacted with each other on a day-to-day basis. State territory was not a uniform entity but rather a fluctuating space full of ‘holes’ – places and spaces where central control was missing or totally dependent on local agents and institutions.
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- Hallenberg, Mats, 1962-
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A State of Aggression? Swedish Peasant Elites and the Art of Bargaining During the Nordic Seven Years’ War (1563–70)
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Ingår i: Aggressive and Violent Peasant Elites in the Nordic Countries, C. 1500-1700. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319406879 - 9783319406886 ; , s. 145-170
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter addresses the violent mentality of peasant elites in the Swedish Realm during the mid-sixteenth century. The purpose is to discuss how the belligerent politics of the Swedish kings was inflicted on peasant communities, and why this expansionist strategy came to foster a mentality of masculine honour and aggressive behaviour among the leading strata of peasant society. I will present a case study of the army campaigns against Norway in 1564–65 (which were ultimately futile) to demonstrate how the war policy came to rely on an extended bargaining process between royal officials and peasant elites, which in turn encouraged violent ideals of masculine honour as a means to achieve recognition.
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- Hallenberg, Mats, 1962-
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Bönder, krig och klass : Statsbildning och social skiktning under svensk stormaktstid
- 2020
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Ingår i: Arbetarhistoria. - 0281-7446. ; 173-174:1-2, s. 60-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay addresses the relation between social stratification and state formation in early modern Sweden. I argue that the belligerent politics of Swedish rulers promoted the social and political rise of a smaller group of peasant freeholders. The state preferred to bargain with the landed peasants who commanded authority over the marginalised groups in local society. The freeholders could therefore shift the heavy burden of military conscription on to crofters, farmhands and day labourers.The concept of class has relevance for this analysis, as it draws attention to the marginalised and dispossessed. However, focusing on class might also obscure the complexity of social relations in peasant society. Conflict was not restricted to the struggle between lords and peasants, or between husbands and servants. As historians, we must recognise the specific interests of various social groups as well as the capacity of the state to promote new forms of extraction.
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- Hallenberg, Mats, 1962-
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Det förmoderna i det moderna : Om brott, kontinuitet och långa linjer i historien
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Ingår i: Scandia. - 0036-5483. ; 81:2, s. 26-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The premodernity of modern times. Rupture, continuity and the longue duréeThis essay discusses how the concept of ’premodernity’ may be used to encourage the study of long-time perspectives in history, a feature which has become much in demand in recent scholarly debate. I argue that premodernity should be understood not as a chronological description, but as an analytical tool by which to contrast, criticize and discuss modern as well as premodern societies. The notion of a rupture between the premodern and the modern, and the ability to identify important traits in different societies, Mats Hallenberg 37 Scandia 81:2 may provide historians with the means to confront what is neither old nor new, but essentially human. I argue that there are two important benefits of applying the concept of premodernity in historical research. First, it may incite more cooperation between scholars of classic, medieval and early modern periods. Second, it may help us formulate a critique of modernity from a historical perspective by exposing the reproduction of premodern structures, ideas and concepts in contemporary times. By critically addressing the presumptions of ‘modernist’ social theory, scholars of older periods may contribute to make history less “presentist” in the future.
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