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Libro 23 de 32: Gender in History

Ågren, Maria; Eagren, Maria

 
9781526100641: The state as master: Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650-1780 (Gender in History)
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ISBN 10: 1526100649 ISBN 13: 9781526100641
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

A new gendered approach to the rise of the modern state in Sweden over the long eighteenth century.

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Acerca del autor

Maria Ågren is Professor of History at Uppsala University, Sweden -- .

De la contraportada

Combining a central topic in political history with a gender perspective, The state as master takes a fresh look at how state formation intersected with the everyday lives of women and men.

State service offered new opportunities to early modern households, but the states were also dependent on the contributions made by households. In the longer-term this strong but ambivalent interdependence was formative for both state-building and for how work was gendered. Well-known for its efficient fiscal-military state and its comprehensive modern welfare state, Sweden provides an excellent case for discussing how state service and households have been entangled over time.

The state as master argues that in order to integrate gender in political history, we need to think of the fiscal-military state as strong (Leviathan) yet at the same time weak. It also points to the common roots of women's and men's service work and charts the process by which service for the state was gendered as exclusively male. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, the working lives of lower customs officials and their families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Swedish towns are analysed. These people carried out crucial – yet often detested – tasks for their master, the state, and their everyday problems and conflicts make them uniquely visible in the sources. The book shows how, slowly, an understanding of civil and public service as paid and professional male activities was shaped, while women's work for others became perceived as an unqualified form of ‘help’.

The state as master will be essential reading for academics and postgraduates with an interest in early modern history.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1526100649
ISBN 13 
9781526100641
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
184
Contacto del fabricante
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