Administration, Mobility, and Knowledge across Borders, 1500–1800

Swedish Statecraft in a European Context

AvMans Jansson,Jacob Orrje

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Studies in the History of Knowledge

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Administration, Mobility, and Knowledge across Borders examines the interplay between knowledge-making and governance in early modern Sweden (1500–1800). It explores how state-related knowledge shaped administrative practices, extended power, and circulated within and beyond the vast realm around the Baltic Sea.The book offers insights into the dynamics of knowledge production and mobility that underpinned state-building processes in early modern Europe. The chapters explore matters such as foreign intelligence, land surveying, colonisation, and international trade, demonstrating how diverse actors and practices contributed to the development of central administration in Sweden.A valuable contribution to the fields of administrative history and the history of knowledge, this book is ideal for scholars and students of these topics. It will more specifically appeal to researchers studying state-building processes and transnational knowledge networks as well as those exploring the early modern Swedish state and its role in the Baltic region.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-18
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the History of Knowledge
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Pallas Publications
ISBN:9789048567386

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Måns Jansson is a researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden. In his current research, he explores workforce mobility and technical knowledge in the early modern period.Jacob Orrje is a senior lecturer at the Department of History, Uppsala University, Sweden. His current research examines digital history and infrastructures of early modern knowledge circulation.

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Content1. Moving Like a State: Knowledge, Mobility, and the Practices of Statecraft, 1600–1800 – Jansson and Orrje2. Swedish student intelligencers in Germany 1530–1560 – Martin Neuding Skoog3. The mobile official’s knowing body: cameral work, travelling, and administrative knowledge in the Swedish mining administration 1600–50 – Jacob Orrje4. Land Surveying, Legibility, and State Power in Early Modern Sweden, 1628–1699 - Olof Karsvall5. At arm’s length? Medicine, healthcare and the state from the Reformation to 1800 - Hjalmar Fors6. Bad Milk, Tired Horses, and Shipwrecks: The Circulation of Knowledge and its Obstructions - Carl Wennerlind7. Tabulating reindeer and plants: bioprospecting Linnaean naturalists in mid-eighteenth-century Sápmi - Hanna Hodacs and Linda Andersson Burnett8. Manufacturing improvement: craftwork, mobility, and administrative knowledge in eighteenth-century Sweden – Jansson9. From timber to tables: mathematical rationality and naval administration in eighteenth-century Sweden - Johan Alvarsson10. Purchasing and transporting gifts for North Africa at the end of the eighteenth century - Fredrik Kämpe