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- Bellamy, Charlotte, et al.
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From valet to smuggler : A micro-historical study of a French intermediary in Stockholm, 1775-1832
- 2018
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Ingår i: Revue d'histoire Nordique. - Toulouse : Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail. - 1778-9605. ; 27:2, s. 115-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a microhistorical study of the life of Marcellin Robert, a craftsman's son who came to Sweden from rural France and became one of the greatest smugglers in late eighteenth-century Sweden. Through his transgressions of the law and his connections at court, he was able to navigate the ever-harshening import legislation to become an important conveyor of French fashion in Sweden. As revolution swept France, Robert maintained close links to his native country and was able to provide uninterrupted access to French goods when most other channels closed. Robert's case illustrates the possibilities available to a maverick intermediary in the changing European landscape of the late eighteenth century. It also shows the crucial role such individuals could play in side-stepping official legislation and in realising the cosmopolitan aristocratic lifestyle in a protectionist nation like Sweden.
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- Ekholst, Christine
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Defending one’s rights. Aspects of Violence, Honor and Gender in Swedish Medieval Laws
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Ingår i: Revue d'histoire nordique / Nordic historical review. - 1778-9605. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article follows the research of Claude Gauvard, who argues that medieval violence was not a marginal phenomenon, but on the contrary defined social relationships, identities, and hierarchies. The first part of the article, based on a study of law codes understood as sources of ideology and mentality, confirms that masculin honour was based on the need to physcially respond to offenses, while feminine honor was based on the need to defend the pure nature of a woman’s sexuality, with the former thus as active and the second passive. The author nuances, however, this traditional approach by highlighting the fact that in certain cases, women were allowed to use force to defend their physical integrity or to take revenge, but without being able to fully adopt the masculine system of honour because their rights were more limited and they depended on their status as spouses.Thus, women had a contradictory and ambiguous status in medieval Swedish law codes.At the end of the 14th century, the Church and the king sought to reduce the right to vengeance and to change the concept of honour.
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- Husz, Orsi, 1969-
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Passionate about things : The Swedish Debate on Throwawayism (1960-1961)
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Ingår i: Revue d'histoire Nordique. - Toulouse, France : Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail. - 1778-9605. ; :12, s. 135-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the notorious Swedish debate called “slit-och-släng” [wear and tear and throwaway] in 1960–61. This large-scale media debate on consumption and the throwaway mentality was triggered by a dispute between two leading media personalities specialised in consumer issues and engaged intellectuals, economists, designers, producers, consumer representatives as well as the general public. The analysis in this paper applies three overlapping historical contexts: modernity, morality and emotionality. First, I interpret the debate as a conflict between traditional and modern consumer attitudes. Second, I show that the debate, at first sight, can easily be placed within the tradition of a dichotomised normative criticism, whereby the rational and active consumer is endorsed and contrasted with the negative image of the emotionally-driven and manipulated victim of market forces (Slater 1997: p. 33). Third, I argue that the debate was a breaking point in the very same normative discourse. It signals a rupture in the persistent polarisation, by introducing emotions in a positive way – on both sides of the debate. Rather unexpectedly, the Swedish debate on throwawayism justified a passion for commodities. Consequently, the analysis sheds new light upon the prevalent interpretations of Swedish consumerism in terms of rationality, collectivism, state-controlled consumer education and consumer protection (e.g. Aléx 1994; 2003) by showing how leading consumer educators “got tired of” rationality.
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