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Improving Swedish S...
Improving Swedish Steelmaking : Circulation and Localized Knowledge-Making in Early Modernity
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- Jansson, Måns, Filosofie doktor, 1986- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
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- Rydén, Göran, 1959- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
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- Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: Technology and culture. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 0040-165X .- 1097-3729. ; 64:2, s. 515-542
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- This article explores the multicentered processes that transformed artisanal metalworking in early modern Europe. It does so through an in-depth analysis of the attempts to improve steelmaking in eighteenth-century Sweden. Scholarship has traditionally focused on progress in the British steel industry, but the quest for improvement in Sweden's expanding steel sector, integrating various forms of cross-border mobility, illustrates a more spatially and temporally diverse history of technological development. This case study underlines the need to consider a wider group of actors and practices in metallurgical advances and elucidates the interaction between statecraft, scientific inquiry, and artisanal work, thereby highlighting the work-related foundations for novel perceptions of economic and industrial progress.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Teknikhistoria (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History of Technology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Improvement
- Steelmaking
- Cameralism
- Eighteenth-century Sweden
- Knowledge-making
- Sven Rinman
- Metallurgy
- Ekonomisk historia
- Economic History
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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