Maria Ågren - Böcker

Arbetet är en central del i människors liv. Det fyller våra dagar och våra tankar. Och detta är inget nytt - i vårt kulturarv finns många uttryck för tankar om arbete, både som möjlighet och som förbannelse. Där finns också idéer om hur arbetets o...

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What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the context. With an innovative analytic method that is...

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What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the context. With an innovative analytic method that is...

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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not ...

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Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformat...

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Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partn...

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Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partn...

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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not ...

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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not ...

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We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements,...

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The title of this book has a double meaning: on the one hand, it deals with two very different societies both of which made iron in the early modern period. On the other hand, iron "e;made"e; these societies: the needs of iron production a...

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The idea of an industrial revolution has frequently been challenged during the last decades. The commodity production which took place in the countryside and within the frame of the household is now being regarded as an important precursor of indu...

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Understanding how power works has always been regarded as a central responsibility for researchers in the social sciences. To look upon the issue in a geographically comparative perspective provides important advantages because then the scope for ...

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En person som har något i sin besittning är alltid värd större förtroende än den, som inget har. En kvinna bör i allmänhet inte tillåtas sköta egendom och ekonomi på egen hand. Men likväl finns det anledning att göra undantag för de kvinnor, som ä...

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