Contribute[s] many fascinating and new findings about encounters in early modern Sweden, and between Swedes and the world beyond its borders. Its strength lies in its diversity of empirical studies of early modern encounters rather than in its discussion of 'self' or 'other'.

• Introduction: Material Transformations - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenTracing Other in 17th Century Sweden - Christina Rosén and Per CornellHouses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar - Göran TagessonIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Anna-Kaisa SalmiIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Annemari TranbergIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Risto NurmiBrewing an Ethnic Identity: Local and Foreign Beer Brewing Traditions in 15th- to 17th-Century Sweden, an example from Nya Lödöse - Jens HeimdahlTactile Relations: Material Entanglement between Sweden and Its Colonies - Jonas M. NordinIntroduction: Migration and Neighbourly Interactions - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenMarrying "the Other": Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Eastern Borderlands of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th Century - Kimmo KatajalaIdeas from Abroad: German Weavers as Agents of Large-Scale Cloth Production and a Continental Lifestyle in 17th-Century Sweden - Claes B. PetterssonForeign Merchants in Early Modern Sweden: A Case of Intermarriage, Trade and Migration - Christina DalhedeAspects of "British" Migration to Sweden in the 17th Century - Adam GrimshawCommodities, Consumption and Forest Finns in Central Sweden - Magnus ElfwendahlEncountering "the Other" in the North - Colonial Histories in Early Modern Northern Sweden - Carl-Gösta OjalaLapland's Taxation as a Reflection of "Otherness" in the Swedish Realm in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Colonialism or a Priority Right of the Sámi People? - Matti EnbuskeIntroduction: Overseas Travel - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren". How It Would Be to Walk On the New World With the Feet From the Old": Facing Otherness in Colonial America - Magdalena NaumInscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638-1655 - Fredrik EkengrenMen You Can Trust? Intercultural Trust and Masculinity in the Eyes of Swedes in 18th-Century Canton - Lisa HellmanThe Barbary Coast and Ottoman Slavery in Swedish Early Modern Imagination - Joachim OstlundA World of Distinctions: Pehr Löfling and the Meaning of Difference - Kenneth NybergEncountering Some Others and Not Others - Lu Ann De Cunzo

Contribute[s] many fascinating and new findings about encounters in early modern Sweden, and between Swedes and the world beyond its borders. Its strength lies in its diversity of empirical studies of early modern encounters rather than in its discussion of 'self' or 'other'.

• Introduction: Material Transformations - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenTracing Other in 17th Century Sweden - Christina Rosén and Per CornellHouses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar - Göran TagessonIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Anna-Kaisa SalmiIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Annemari TranbergIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Risto NurmiBrewing an Ethnic Identity: Local and Foreign Beer Brewing Traditions in 15th- to 17th-Century Sweden, an example from Nya Lödöse - Jens HeimdahlTactile Relations: Material Entanglement between Sweden and Its Colonies - Jonas M. NordinIntroduction: Migration and Neighbourly Interactions - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenMarrying "the Other": Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Eastern Borderlands of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th Century - Kimmo KatajalaIdeas from Abroad: German Weavers as Agents of Large-Scale Cloth Production and a Continental Lifestyle in 17th-Century Sweden - Claes B. PetterssonForeign Merchants in Early Modern Sweden: A Case of Intermarriage, Trade and Migration - Christina DalhedeAspects of "British" Migration to Sweden in the 17th Century - Adam GrimshawCommodities, Consumption and Forest Finns in Central Sweden - Magnus ElfwendahlEncountering "the Other" in the North - Colonial Histories in Early Modern Northern Sweden - Carl-Gösta OjalaLapland's Taxation as a Reflection of "Otherness" in the Swedish Realm in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Colonialism or a Priority Right of the Sámi People? - Matti EnbuskeIntroduction: Overseas Travel - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren". How It Would Be to Walk On the New World With the Feet From the Old": Facing Otherness in Colonial America - Magdalena NaumInscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638-1655 - Fredrik EkengrenMen You Can Trust? Intercultural Trust and Masculinity in the Eyes of Swedes in 18th-Century Canton - Lisa HellmanThe Barbary Coast and Ottoman Slavery in Swedish Early Modern Imagination - Joachim OstlundA World of Distinctions: Pehr Löfling and the Meaning of Difference - Kenneth NybergEncountering Some Others and Not Others - Lu Ann De Cunzo

Contribute[s] many fascinating and new findings about encounters in early modern Sweden, and between Swedes and the world beyond its borders. Its strength lies in its diversity of empirical studies of early modern encounters rather than in its discussion of 'self' or 'other'.

• Introduction: Material Transformations - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenTracing Other in 17th Century Sweden - Christina Rosén and Per CornellHouses of Wood, Houses of Stone: On Constructing a Modern Town in Early Modern Kalmar - Göran TagessonIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Anna-Kaisa SalmiIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Annemari TranbergIndigeneity, Locality, Modernity: Encounters and Their Effects on Foodways in Early Modern Tornio - Risto NurmiBrewing an Ethnic Identity: Local and Foreign Beer Brewing Traditions in 15th- to 17th-Century Sweden, an example from Nya Lödöse - Jens HeimdahlTactile Relations: Material Entanglement between Sweden and Its Colonies - Jonas M. NordinIntroduction: Migration and Neighbourly Interactions - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik EkengrenMarrying "the Other": Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Eastern Borderlands of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th Century - Kimmo KatajalaIdeas from Abroad: German Weavers as Agents of Large-Scale Cloth Production and a Continental Lifestyle in 17th-Century Sweden - Claes B. PetterssonForeign Merchants in Early Modern Sweden: A Case of Intermarriage, Trade and Migration - Christina DalhedeAspects of "British" Migration to Sweden in the 17th Century - Adam GrimshawCommodities, Consumption and Forest Finns in Central Sweden - Magnus ElfwendahlEncountering "the Other" in the North - Colonial Histories in Early Modern Northern Sweden - Carl-Gösta OjalaLapland's Taxation as a Reflection of "Otherness" in the Swedish Realm in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Colonialism or a Priority Right of the Sámi People? - Matti EnbuskeIntroduction: Overseas Travel - Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren". How It Would Be to Walk On the New World With the Feet From the Old": Facing Otherness in Colonial America - Magdalena NaumInscribing Indigeneity in the Colonial Landscape of New Sweden, 1638-1655 - Fredrik EkengrenMen You Can Trust? Intercultural Trust and Masculinity in the Eyes of Swedes in 18th-Century Canton - Lisa HellmanThe Barbary Coast and Ottoman Slavery in Swedish Early Modern Imagination - Joachim OstlundA World of Distinctions: Pehr Löfling and the Meaning of Difference - Kenneth NybergEncountering Some Others and Not Others - Lu Ann De Cunzo