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The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden
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- Forss, Charlotta, 1986- (författare)
- Stockholms universitet,Historiska institutionen
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- Hallenberg, Mats, Docent (preses)
- Stockholms universitet,Historiska institutionen
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- Ågren, Henrik, Professor (preses)
- Historiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet
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- Savin, Kristiina, Fil dr. (opponent)
- Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala universitet
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- ISBN 9789526892900
- Turku (Åbo), Finland : Iloinen tiede, 2018
- Engelska 304 s.
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Abstract
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- This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. The investigation explores how an understanding of conceptual categories such as the continents was interlinked with processes of making and presenting knowledge. In this, the study combines approaches from conceptual history with research on knowledge construction and circulation in the early modern world.The thesis shows how geographical frameworks shifted between settings. There was variation in what the continents meant and what roles they could fill. Rather than attribute this flexibility to random variation or mistakes, this thesis interprets flexibility as an integral part of how the world was conceptualized. Religious themes, ideas about societal unities, definitions of old, new and unknown knowledge, as well as practical considerations, were factors that in different way shaped what the continents meant.A scheme of continents – usually consisting of the entities ‘Africa’, ‘America’, ‘Asia’, ‘Europe’ and the polar regions – is a part of descriptions about what the world looks like today. In such descriptions, the continents are often treated as existing outside of history. However, like other concepts, the meaning and significance of these concepts have changed drastically over time and between contexts. This fact is a matter of importance for historians, but equally so for a wider public using geographical categories to understand the world. Concepts such as the continents may describe what the world looks like, yet they can create both boundaries and affiliations far beyond land and sea.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- historical geography
- Ottoman Empire
- colonial America
- conceptual history
- history of knowledge
- history of cartography
- history of science
- religious geography
- early modern history
- historisk geografi
- kartografi
- begreppshistoria
- kunskapshistoria
- Osmanska riket
- vetenskapshistoria
- religiös geografi
- tidigmodern historia
- det koloniala Amerika
- History
- historia
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